public_off Anarcho-Capitalism
Political philosophy advocating stateless capitalism
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"The essays collected in this volume challenge the conventional wisdom that the state is necessary for the provision of security. Defense, like any other service, can be produced competitively on the free market, and there is no economic or ethical reason why this one category of goods should be exempt from market competition."
menu_book The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production
View Full Quote"Medieval Iceland, medieval Ireland, the Law Merchant of stateless commercial networks, and many other historical examples demonstrate that legal and judicial order does not require the state. These polycentric legal systems provided security and conflict resolution through purely private and voluntary mechanisms."
menu_book The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production
View Full Quote"Private insurance agencies, competing for clients, face a powerful incentive to minimize conflict and aggression: each unresolved conflict imposes costs on the insurer. A territorial monopoly state, by contrast, profits from insecurity; it can externalize the costs of war and aggression onto its tax-paying subjects."
menu_book The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production
View Full Quote"Without the erroneous public perception and judgment of the state as just and necessary and without the public's voluntary cooperation, even the seemingly most powerful government would implode and its powers evaporate. Thus liberated, we would regain our right to self-defense and be able to turn to freed and unregulated insurance agencies for efficient professional assistance in all matters of protection and conflict resolution."
menu_book The Private Production of Defense
View Full Quote"Every state is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making and taxation. Because it is a monopoly, it will inevitably produce its goods at higher cost and lower quality than would competing private providers, and it will use its compulsory revenue to further entrench and expand its power."
menu_book The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production
View Full Quote"No government should have the right to prevent another government from going into competition with it, or to require consumers of security to come exclusively to it for this commodity."
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