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From: unlinQ Marketing <marketing@unlinq.com> Date: January 28, 2009 11:24:31 AM GMT-04:00 To: gold-silver-crypto@rayservers.com Subject: Re: [gsc] Networked tribes, systems disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence. Resilient Communities, decentralized platforms, and self-organizing futures.

Lanes' article can be downloaded here: http://rapidshare.com/files/190679766/Lane__Economic_Consequences_of_Organiz...

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:42 PM, DGCMP <dgc@metropipe.net> wrote:

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Global Guerrillas http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/

Nice recent post:

PROTECTION RACKETS Saturday, 24 January 2009 Diving into military theory (again).

http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2009/01/protection-rack...

A core dynamic behind the emergence of the nation-state was it's ability to run a successful protection business (aka racket). A system that has been growing since the treaties of Westphalia in the 1600s. The protection business is relatively simple:

1. It is a monopoly. It has exclusive ownership over the use of violence. As a monopoly, it must crush all internal competitors. 2. It defends its monopoly from outside interests -- as in warfare with nation-state and non-state competitors. 3. It charges the customers (individuals and businesses) within its geographical areas of control for this service. This isn't optional. Customers presumably benefit from this protection.

Historically Successful Protection Rackets

So what made the nation-state formula for protection so superior to its competitors during its ascent over the last 400 years? It's simple. It delivered value to its customers. Let's dive into this with a paper by Charles Tilly (War Making and State Making as Organized Crime). He cites the economic historian Frederic Lane's simple formula for success:

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