Indians For Guns

The Production of Security by French economist Gustave de Molinari

There are a few somewhat racist references, nothing that detracts from the overall logic though just so long as one keeps the era (of when this was written) in perspective.

12 pages, and well worth the read. BTW if any of you care to look him up La Boetie is another Frenchman whose essays are worth reading.

Cheers!
Abhijeet

Have downloaded the pdf. Will read it..

no thanks, as they are ancestral enemies .

Hello Mundaire
Thanks for the reading. Molinari's theory is utopian, but Boetie is more realistic and we see evidence of the same all around us. The essence of Boetie's theory is that we collectively abnigate our rights for self protection to the govt. who in turn misuse it to keep the general populace under control. Molinari's on the other hand looks at it from an economist's point of view, whereby security as a commodity may be produced in a free market manner. Molinari's model also works in small sets such as industrial security, but in a much dilute form.
i lean more towards Boetie.
Regards