Free Riding and National Defense - some problems and possible solutions

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References some nebulous “entrepreneurial” solution to the free rider problem. This thread is trying to find out what that solution could be.

For there to be a solution, there needs to be a problem. What’s the problem?

I’m sorry I reject the notion that there is one. The concept of static efficiency is a chimera.

I have read hoppe in the past. Is his treatment of free riders different from the other authors? I do not want to read the same thing over again…

I’d also add the Myth of National Defense.

I have not read this extensively, but skimmed it for “free rider”. My basic response is that yes there are free rider problems in both the political and free markets, but in politics the free riders are fixed. It is not merely the fact that free riders exist on the free market, but that everyone can try to become one, which poses such great threats to the provision of public goods.

Everyone wants to become one? Don’t think so.

“There is no way around the fact that when you are offered this deal, you are being asked to pay for something that might be provided anyway if you just shut your door. Because the free rider option is available to everyone, they’ll all try to take it, and defense will suffer.”

I suggest you listen to the entire: The Anarchist Society vs. the Military State: The Insignificance of the Free Rider by Vedrun Vuk