“A key source of intra-libertarian factionalism is how to view ‘big business’ and regulation. Ayn Rand, the standard-bearer of the libertarian right, famously proclaimed that policies such as antitrust rendered big business a ‘persecuted minority.’ Knapp and the libertarian left disagree with that assertion; they say government is the primary cause of ‘big business,’ and that removing the state’s infrastructure would produce a radically different free market. What strikes me, though, is how close Knapp’s description of ‘bourgeois libertarians’ matches the views of most antitrust regulators.” (03/14/10)