--- begin forwarded text From: "Mises Institute News" <news@mises.org> To: <miseslist@mises.org> Subject: Hoppe on Defense Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:53:24 -0600 Sender: miseslist-owner@mises.org Status: U We are pleased to announce another paper in our Essays in Political Economy series: "The Private Production of Defense" by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Senior Fellow, the Ludwig von Mises Institute).
From the essay:
"Among the most popular and consequential beliefs of our age is the belief in collective security. Nothing less significant than the legitimacy of the modern state rests on this belief. And yet, the idea of a collective security is a myth that provides no justification for the modern state. Private-property owners, cooperation based on the division of labor, and market competition can and should provide defense from aggression." This powerful and radical essay can be purchased here http://mises.org/product.asp?sku=p131 or by calling 334-844-2500. The price is $4.00 postpaid (no postage charges will appear on your credit card, regardless of what your shopping basket says). * * * * * A special 4-page, supplemental Austrian Economics Newsletter has been published this quarter. It features an interview with Roberta Modugno of the Center for the Methodology of the Social Sciences at the Libera Universita Internazionale degli Studi Sociali in Rome, Italy. She discusses her new book, Murray N. Rothbard e il libertarismo amerciano (Robbettino Ediotre, Soveria Mannelli, 1998). Students and faculty have been mailed a copy of this special AEN. If you are not on the list to receive one, email susan@mises.org with your address. Subscriptions to the AEN are $16 a year. Something to look forward to for Spring 1999: An interview With Richard Vedder (Ohio University) * * * * * The new Mises Review features David Gordon reviewing books by Allen Oakley on Austrian economics; Francis Beckwith and Gregory Koukl on relativism; Richard John Neuhaus et al. on judicial tyranny; Zbegniew Brzezinksi on American foreign policy; Jim Sleeper on liberal racism; Michael Levin on race; and Ronald Dworkin on affirmative action. Individual copies are $5. Subscriptions are $16 per year. Back issues are available on Mises.org. Subscribe: http://mises.org/product.asp?sku=MR * * * * * As we approach the new year, we wish you a happy one, and hope you enjoy Clifford F. Thies's article on millennial hysteria and its historic connection with socialist ideology. http://mises.org/fullstory.asp?FS=+%3Ch3%3EThe+Year+2000 In the next few days on Mises.org, we'll feature an article on the Euro and coverage of the continuing debate between Robert Bork (taking the statist position) and Michael Kinsley (taking the free-market position) on Microsoft's future. It may seem like a strange turnabout, but even stranger things have happened this month, in addition to the political turmoil in the Belly of the Beast: the Mises Institute and the Village Voice agreed–that the U.S. government should not be destroying people and property in Iraq. --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'