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• iceberg

  Funny, I thought it was your patron saint, Mssr. Molinari who first developed that idea.

  Published: May 16, 2006 4:55 PM

• Roderick T. Long

  It was. Molinari came up with it in 1849, nearly five decades before Tandy. That's why I called Tandy's essay "one of the early" rather than "the earliest."

  Tandy, in turn, was influenced by Tucker and the other writers associated with _Liberty_, who also advocated the idea. As far as I can tell, they came up with it independently of (but still later than) Molinari.

  Published: May 16, 2006 4:59 PM

• Kenneth R. Gregg

  Rod,
  

  You might want to add Gustave de Molinari's L'abbé de Saint-Pierre (in French, sorry), my 2006 online edition of Stephen Pearl Andrews' The Science of Society (I should have my "Introduction to the 2006 Online Edition: Stephen Pearl Andrews, Southern Abolitionism and the Science of Freedom" added soon) and all of the new google books digital project books. There are a lot of libertarian works now available (which now include all of Herbert Spencer's writings). As an example:

  
  
  
  
  • Josiah Warren's True Civilization and Equitable Commerce
  
  
  • Andrews' Basic Outline of Universology and The Primary Synopsis of Universology and Alwato
  
  
  • J.H. Levy's A Symposium on the Land Question
  
  
  • Oswald Dawson's Personal Rights and Sexual Wrongs
  
  
  
  

  and many, many more.

  
  Andrews,

  Just a thought.
  Just Ken
  CLASSical Liberalism

  Published: May 16, 2006 9:10 PM

• franny

  i think it has to do with more than that

  
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  Published: May 17, 2006 5:58 AM

• Paul Edwards

  It was a great article. Thanks Roderick.

  Paul

  Published: May 17, 2006 10:13 AM

• Andrew - Money Supply & Debt Blog

  Here is an interesting thought; in some areas of the world private protection really is the only option, with government completely lacking. In developing countries with police forces, corruption creates serious problems. Imagine the liability private companies would face if their employees did some of the things government police get away with on a routine basis!

  Even in the US home security systems and guards fill in the gaps that the government is completely unable to serve.

  Published: May 21, 2006 3:48 PM