 It was the first significant anarcho-capitalist work to hit the libertarian movement, coming into print a year before Rothbard's "Power and Market" although Rothbard's book had been written earlier.Like Rothbard's "Man, Economy, and State", "The Market For Liberty" opposes statutory law and advocates natural law as the basis for society; however, unlike "Man, Economy, and State", which explains what sort of libertarian legal code the market would create in an anarcho-capitalist society, "The Market for Liberty" points out that society would not be lawless in the absence of the state.Conversely, "The Market for Liberty" spends a great deal of time outlining how different businesses and organizational structures would interact in a laissez-faire society and how these interactions would create checks which would ultimately keep the tendency for crime low.