Molinari argues that majority rule is no more legitimate than royal absolutism when it violates individual rights.
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Category Archive: 6b) Austrian Economics
Government and Society
Molinari distinguishes between society, which arises naturally from voluntary human cooperation, and government, which imposes itself through force.
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The Monopolization and Collectivization of the Security Industry
Molinari describes how coercive control over defense led to the familiar abuses of taxation, war, and the suppression of individual liberty.
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Monopoly and Communism
Molinari draws a parallel between monopoly and communism, arguing that both represent departures from the principle of free competition.
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The Alternatives
Molinari frames this choice as the central political question that determines whether a society will be free or oppressed.
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Security an Exception?
Molinari confronts the common objection that security is somehow different from other goods and must be exempted from market provision.
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Competition in Security
Molinari applies the general principle of free competition directly to the provision of security services.
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The Natural Order of Society
Molinari argues that the division of labor and voluntary cooperation form the natural basis of social organization.
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The Production of Security
Molinari opens by establishing that humans have a fundamental need for security of their persons and property.
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Preface by Murray N. Rothbard
Rothbard introduces Molinari's essay as a pioneering work that took free-market principles to their logical conclusion by questioning the state's monopoly on defense.
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The Permanent Emergency
How the West traded liberty for the illusion of security
Unlike the centuries that came before it, full of great and truly important ideological and philosophical clashes, full of historical shifts in the trajectory of Western thought, values identity and culture, the story of our time will most likely not feature any grand battles of ideas or any defining crescendos that will captivate the imagination and inspire future students of history. It...
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Zum kot*en: Klingbeil plant immer mehr Steuern! (Steuerreform)
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The Tragedy of Socialized Fertility
The dearth of child-bearing in western countries like the US is seen as a political crisis. Yet, if there is any place in our lives where government should stay out, it is in the area of childbirth.
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U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP
The U.S. national debt now exceeds 100% of gross domestic product, crossing a once-unthinkable threshold, on the way toward breaking the record set in the wake of World War II.
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Stuff that Fed Officials Say
Ryan McMaken, Jonathan Newman, and Joshua Mawhorter of the Mises Institute take a look at the politics of "fedspeak" and what officials at the Federal Reserve really mean when they say they're going to fix the Fed.
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NYT: “The U.S. Military Was Losing Its Edge. After Iran, Everyone Knows It.”
" But the problem is bigger than any single commander in chief. The United States has left itself unprepared for modern war."
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The Shadow Chair
A soft coup took place in D.C. last night, and Jerome Powell could stay in the bunker until 2028, if he so chooses.
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New DOJ report details how Biden’s FBI targeted Christians
Biden's FBI "diligently attempted to use its enforcement authority against parents who defended their children’s safety at local school board meetings."
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We Are Living in the Fourth American Republic
The old republic is gone. The constitutional order of the Jeffersonian years—i.e., the so-called "American experiment"—was swept away long ago.
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SNB Sight Deposits: increased by 3.8 billion francs compared to the previous week
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Household wealth in 2025
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Heads up for NZD and CHF traders, RBNZ Gov Breman and SNB Chair Schlegel to speak
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Swiss franc appreciation has led to tighter monetary conditions – SNB minutes
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SNB’s Chairman Schlegel: A few months of negative inflation wouldn’t be a problem
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