--- Gil Guillory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... I think there's something to
Hoppe's and von Kuehnelt-Leddihn's arguments that monarchy is superior
to democracy with regard to this general problem of what we might
euphemistically call the externalities of war.
Does World War I and its
Sorry, just catching up to this post...
First, if war were so expensive relative to peace why
does it exist? Maybe peace is more expensive, in
terms of risk for example, than open warfare.
The costs of war are born by those who pay for and die in the wars, and
these people are not the same
John, there has been plenty written in the academic
journals over the past decade debating your questions.
For theoretical arguements look up Tyler Cowen The
Economics of Anarchy in Economics and philosophy and
David Friedman's response. Dan Sutter's paper
Asymetric Power relations in Anarchy
What prevents a particular private law enforcement
agency from engaging in mob-style protection? For
example, in Friedman's Anarchy and Efficient Law, he
states that, The most obvious and least likely is
direct violence-a mini-war between my agency,
attempting to arrest the burglar, and his
