SECTION FOUR

PRIVATE SECURITY PRODUCTION:
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

9

National Defense and the Theory of Externalities, Public Goods, and Clubs

Walter Block

Levin1 wrote a wonderful little essay showing “How Philosophical Errors Impede Freedom.” His “skim milk” fallacy2 is the mistake of assuming that the truth is the very opposite of what appears to be the case based on logic, careful consideration, and observation.

10

Government and the Private Production of Defense

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

It is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

—Declaration of Independence

11

Secession and the Production of Defense

Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Few people object to the private production of shoes or rock concerts. But almost everybody believes that certain goods cannot be produced on a purely voluntary basis. Cultural goods such as classical music and opera, welfare services, and in particular the definition and enforcement of law have to be entrusted to compulsory organizations like the modern state.

Subject Index

Prepared by Brad Edmonds

Absent redneck problem, 233

Action, group vs. individual, 145–49

Agency and group action, 148–49

Agricultural revolution, 276–82

Afghanistan, 1–3

American Revolution. See Revolution

America’s second crusade, 182–84

Anakyklosis, 84–85

Anarcho-capitalism, 231–35, 237–38, 292–97

Name Index

Prepared by Brad Edmonds

Acton, 121

Alexandra, Empress, 121

Alfonso IV, 120

Amin Dada, Idi, 105

Anderson, Gary M., 247, 271–72

Anderson, Terry, 361

Annan, K., 381

Antony, Bernard, 90

Arendt, Hannah, 397

Aristotle, 84, 222

Aron, Raymond, 112, 187

Asprey, Robert B., 229

Bibliography

Anderson, Gary M., and Adam Gifford, Jr. “Privateering and the Private Production of Naval Power.” Cato Journal 11, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1991).

Anderson, Terry, and P.J. Hill. “The American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism: The Not So Wild, Wild West.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 3, no. 1 (1979).

Annan, K. “Two Concepts of Sovereignty.” The Economist (November 18, 1999).

Aquinas, St. Thomas. Summa Theologica.

Contributors

Hans-Hermann Hoppe, editor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Luigi Marco Bassani
University of Milan

Walter Block
Loyola University, New Orleans

Jörg Guido Hülsmann
Mises Institute

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
San Jose State University

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1909–1999)
Lans, Tyrol, Austria

Bertrand Lemennicier
University of Paris—Dauphine