# Ep. 59: The Corporation Problem (with Gary Chartier) **URL:** **By** Anthony Comegna **Published:** June 19, 2018 --- This week, Gary Chartier joins us to discuss the libertarian corporation problem. Corporations are so commonplace, so ubiquitous, and considered so necessary that we barely stop to ask whether it's ever been justifiable in the first place. Here to help us tackle one of the great, relatively forgotten questions in Libertarian history is Gary Chartier. ## Further Reading: [Gary Chartier’s Wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Chartier) [His archive at the Center for a Stateless Society](https://c4ss.org/content/author/garychartier) “[Corporations: A Contractual Program](https://www.libertarianism.org/essays/corporations-contractual-program)” in Literature of Liberty, December 1979 “The Limited Liability Corporation” in Literature of Liberty, September 1982 William Leggett, “[The Restraining Law and Its Abominations](https://www.libertarianism.org/essays/wall-street-palaces),” August 1836 Music by Kai Engel