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1、IEssaynPoliticalEconomsyFromtheLudwigvonMisesInstituteAmongthemostpopularandconsequentialbeliefsofourageisthebeliefincollectivesecurity.Nothinglesssignificantthanthelegitimacyofthemodernstaterestsonthisbelief.Andyet,theideaofacollectivesecurityisamyththatprovidesn
2、ojustificationforthemodernstate.Private-propertyowners,cooperationbasedonthedivisionoflabor,andmarketcompetitioncanandshouldprovidedefensefromaggression.THEPRIVATEPRODUCTIONOFDEFENSEHANS-HERMANNHOPPEmongthemostpopularandconsequentialhasthepowertoimposetaxesinorder
3、toprovideAbeliefsofourageisthebeliefincollectivesecurity“collectively.”security.NothinglesssignificantthantheIncommentingonthisargument,thereislittlelegitimacyofthemodernstaterestsonthisbelief.useinquarrelingoverwhethermanisasbadandIwilldemonstratethattheideaofcol
4、lectivewolf-likeasHobbessupposes,excepttonotethatsecurityisamyththatprovidesnojustificationforHobbes’sthesisobviouslycannotmeanthatmanthemodernstate,andthatallsecurityisandmustisdrivenonlyandexclusivelybyaggressivein-beprivate.Yet,beforecomingtotheconclusionletsti
5、ncts.Ifthiswerethecase,mankindwouldhavemebeginwiththeproblem.First,Iwillpresentadiedoutlongago.Thefactthathedidnotdem-two-stepreconstructionofthemythofcollectiveonstratesthatmanalsopossessesreasonandissecurity,andateachstepraiseafewtheoreticalcapableofconstraining
6、hisnaturalimpulses.Theconcerns.quarrelisonlywiththeHobbesiansolution.GivenThemythofcollectivesecuritycanalsobeman’snatureasarationalanimal,istheproposedcalledtheHobbesianmyth.ThomasHobbes,andsolutiontotheproblemofinsecurityanimprove-countlesspoliticalphilosophersa
7、ndeconomistsment?Cantheinstitutionofastatereduceaggres-afterhim,arguedthatinthestateofnature,mensivebehaviorandpromotepeacefulcooperation,wouldconstantlybeateachothers’throats.Homoandthusprovideforbetterprivatesecurityandhominilupusest.Putinmodernjargon,inthestate
8、protection?ThedifficultieswithHobbes’sargu-ofnatureapermanentunderproductionofsecuritymentareobvious.Forone,regardlessofhowbadwouldprevail.Eachindividua