Chapter 10. Government and the Private Production of Defense
From The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production, edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
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Acknowledgments for The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production.
Chapter 4. Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation or Monopoly?
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Chapter 8. The Will to be Free: The Role of Ideology in National Defense
From The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production, edited by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
Chapter 2. War, Peace, and the State
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Chapter 6. Mercenaries, Guerrillas, Militias, and the Defense of Minimal States and Free Societies
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Chapter 11. Secession and the Production of Defense
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Introduction — The Myth of National Defense
Introduction to The Myth of National Defense: Essays on the Theory and History of Security Production.
Chapter 5, Part 1. Is Democracy More Peaceful than Other Forms of Government?
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Chapter 9. National Defense and the Theory of Externalities, Public Goods, and Clubs
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