# Social Laws, Part 6

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/social-laws-part-6>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** April 5, 2017

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George H. Smith explains methodological individualism and its implications for the existence of institutions and other social phenomena.

[Originally published in essay form on September 5, 2014.](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/social-laws-part-6)

_Narrated by Daniel Hyland._