A recent Tom Woods podcast featured a debate about whether the free market can provide for national defense. Arguing that libertarian society can offer defense "services", Bob Murphy relies on the idea of insurance paying the costs of defense. Arguing that a monopoly state should offer these services, Todd Lewis points out numerous historical examples in which government organized national defense is seemingly necessary. I dislike this kind of discussion in general. My feeling is that there shouldn't be such a thing as any kind of organized, politically driven, violence. The idea of...
Can A Libertarian Society Provide National Defense?
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