The Production of Security

Tags: Property Rights, Strategy, War and Foreign Policy

04/30/2026 Gustave de Molinari

Molinari opens by establishing that humans have a fundamental need for security of their persons and property. He frames security as a commodity like any other, one that must be produced and supplied to satisfy this universal demand.

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