Hoppe y Molinari: la producción privada de defensa y seguridad

Dos clásicos republicados por el Mises Institute y disponibles online: The Private Production of Defense (Hans Hermann Hoppe), editado por primera vez en 1998; y The Production of Security (Gustave de Molinari), editado en francés en... 1849.

Los leí hace tiempo, algunas de sus conclusiones no me parecen definitivas. Gabriel Calzada, por ejemplo, planteaba en su tesis de doctorado dos objeciones importantes al argumento de Hoppe a favor de los seguros privados contra guerras:

1. No puede calcularse la probabilidad del evento "guerra" y por tanto no es asegurable.
2. El evento es susceptible de destruir la riqueza con la que se resarciría a las víctimas.

Gustave de Molinari, por su parte, dejó de suscribir la tesis anarco-capitalista al final de su vida (leed el prefacio de Rothbard).

Destaco la nota del editor del Journal des Economistes sobre el ensayo de Molinari publicado en 1849.

This article may appear utopian in its conclusions, we nevertheless believe that we should publish it in order to attract the attention of economists and journalists to a question which has hitherto been treated in only a desultory manner and which should, nevertheless, in our day and age, be approached with greater precision. So many people exaggerate the nature and prerogatives of government that it has become useful to formulate strictly the boundaries outside of which the intervention of authority becomes anarchical and tyrannical rather than protective and profitable.

Creo que el comentario es hoy aún de más actualidad.

A continuación copio el índice de cada obra:

- Hans Hermann Hoppe - The Private Production of Defese (pdf).

Índice:

The Private Production of Defense
The Empirical Evidence
How to Think About the Statist Response
The Case for Private Security
More on Aggression Insurance
Political Borders and Insurance
The Democratic State and Total War
Insurance and Incentives
Insuring Against State Aggression
Regaining Our Right to Self-Defense
References

- Gustave de Molinari - The Production of Security (pdf). Versión en castellano en Liberalismo.org.

Índice:

Preface by Murray N . Rothbard
The Production of Security
The Natural Order of Society
Competition in Security?
Security an E xception?
The Alternatives
Monopoly and Communism
The Monopolization and Collectivization of the Security Industry
Government and Society
The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities
The Regime of Terror
The Free Market for Security