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The Production of Security

Posted by tadelste on · 4 comments
Mises.org; By Gustave de Molinari 		Mail this story
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Never has laissez-faire thought been as dominant as it was among French economists, beginning with J.B. Say in the early nineteenth century, down through Say's more advanced followers Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer and to the early years of the twentieth century. For nearly a century, the laissez-faire economists controlled the professional economic society, the Societe d'Economie Politique and its journal, the Journal des Economistes, as well as numerous other journals and university posts. And yet, few of these economists were translated into English, and virtually none are known to English or American scholars — the sole exception being Frederic Bastiat, not the most profound of the group. The entire illustrious group remains unstudied and unsung.

Thanks to Bob Robertson for the link

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Comments (4)

Wow, that was, like 5 minutes after I sent it? Less?

Bob_Robertson ·
Neat, I didn't realize the article would be so well received, since it was written in 1849 and therefore was dealing only with a development version of Linux at all. :^)
tadelste Story submitter ·
I liked the story.
jimf ·
We could say that the issues have been around for a while :D

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

ayeomans ·
.. describes a fictional dystopia where this has happened, and the remnants of the federal government compete with sovereign enclaves run as business franchises. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash for synopsis if you've not read it.

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