A new type of societal organization

I recently published my second peer-reviewed article, this time about national defense. It is published in New Perspectives on Political Economy, Vol.13, No.1-2, 2017 http://www.cevroinstitut.cz/data/nppe-13.pdf Enjoy!

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The Austrian Business Cycle Theory (ABCT) is frequently used to explain the economic processes under invariable money and during the process of credit expansion. It will be argued that its specific implementation is incorrect. In particular ABCT does not take into consideration the existence of fixed capital goods and does not account for the production of final (durable) capital goods. In addition it will be shown that a decrease of the rate of interest is not a precondition for economic growth to occur. A theory which corrects the above deficiencies and describes the processes of growth and retrogression under invariable...

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Austrian Monetary Economics Conference, Madrid, Nov.2-3, 2017 The 100% reserve gold standard as such has many supporters within the Austrian economics circles. The main reason why it gathers so much support is because it takes the rains from the hands of the government. In particular, it does not allow for money to be created out of thin air and thus to create inflation and its concomitant consequences: wealth redistribution and economic crises. Admitting all of the above, however, does not logically lead us to the conclusion that the gold standard as such is the ideal monetary system. The aim of...

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I recently published my first article in a peer-reviewed Austrian journal, namely, in "New Perspectives on Political Economy" Vol. 12, No. 1–2, 2016. Enjoy! http://www.cevroinstitut.cz/data/nppe-12.pdf

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Prague Conference on Political Economy, March 17-18, 2017 How to protect your nation/community/society against foreign invasion is one of the hard questions posed in front of the supporters of anarcho-capitalism. Several solutions to this problem have been offered, which are stateless and market based by their nature. The aim of the present article is to offer another alternative for defense against foreign aggression, which is also stateless and market-based while at the same time critically opposing the existing ones. For this purpose, comparisons from a normative point of view only will be drawn between the suggested organization for defense and...

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In my article "National defense: the hard problem and its true free-market solution" I describe a basic problem of the anarcho-capitalist national defense/insurance companies. The idea that I advance there is however not limited to protection from foreign invasion only, but applies directly to the anarcho-capitalist style crime prevention companies. In short what I claim (similarly to many other authors) is that they find themselves in a classical conflict of interests situation. This conflict stems from the fact that in order to exist such protection agencies need clients, i.e. private property owners who would like to pay for police protection....

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One of the main differences between the Austrian school of economic thought and the rest of the economic schools is the Austrian view how the economic growth (i.e. capital accumulation) takes place. This view is embodied in the so called Austrian Business Cycle (ABC) theory. This theory presents a view of how the capital is organized, how it grows, stagnates or diminishes and finally used to explain the boom-bust fluctuations through which economies typically pass, i.e. the so-called economic cycle. The intent of the present article is to show why the ABC theory is conceptually flawed and therefore must not...

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A typical view in the Austrian school of economics is that processes which are longer and require more capital to be performed are more productive. Whereas this view can in general be proven correct, the way it is presented is very often misleading. Two fundamentally different types of processes are confused for each other and based on this a correct conclusion is reached by using wrong arguments. In short: being right for a wrong reason. The typical flow of arguments can be found in many Austrian economics textbooks, in this particular case taken from De Soto[1]. It goes like this:...

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How to protect your nation/community/society against foreign invasion is one of the hard questions posed in front of the anaracho-capitalists. As the most common solution to this problem it is suggested that protection against foreign invasion be implemented with the help of a combination/fusion of private insurance and private defense companies. With this solution private property owners buy private property insurance and the insurance companies in turn make sure their clients are secured against foreign invasion by employing private defense companies to fend off the aggressors. A separate and somehow different view is the one offered by D. Friedman. In...

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Society for the Development of Austrian Economics (SDAE) conference, New Orleans, 21 – 23 Nov 2015 Abstract: Paying for the protection of our private property contradicts the ethical and economic ideas conceptualizing private property ownership. Because of this, a new system of organization of the police, courts and prisons is suggested. The system is stateless and market-based, i.e. anarchic, and represents an alternative to anarcho-capitalism. The specific structure and organization of the police, courts and prisons is discussed in detail and it is demonstrated how they can function without external support. A comparison with anarcho-capitalism is drawn. It is shown...

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Paying for the protection of our private property contradicts the ethical and economic ideas conceptualizing private property ownership. Because of this, a new system of organization of the police, courts and prisons is suggested, which does not suffer from the main drawbacks of the minarchist and anarcho-capitalist proposals. It allows these organizations to function without the financial support of the state (as in minarchism) or of the owners of private property (as in anarcho-capitalism). The specific structure and organization of the police, courts and prisons is discussed in detail and it is demonstrated how they can function without external support....

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Paying for the protection of our private property contradicts the ethical and economic ideas conceptualizing private property ownership. Because of this, a new system of organization of the police, courts and prisons is suggested, which does not suffer from the main drawbacks of the minarchistic and anarcho-capitalistic proposals. It allows these organizations to function without the financial support of the state (as in minarchism) or of the owners of the private property (as in anarcho-capitalism). The structure and organization of the police, courts and prisons was discussed in detail and it was shown that they can function without external support,...

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If we accept the supremacy of private property and in particular that the institution of private property stays above the state as such, then it follows logically that the state as we know it today cannot exist. At best, such a state could exist in the form of a variable-size jurisdiction which would constantly adapt to the changing societal circumstances. The laws which govern it would be created by the free market, that is, they would meet the needs and wishes of the people of the particular jurisdiction and what is more, they would be created gratuitously.

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National Defense as a Private Good: Freedom as a Positive Externality Feb 5, 2018

Against the Austrian Capital Theory Jan 21, 2018

Against the Gold Standard Jun 15, 2017

My first peer-reviewed Austrian economics journal article! Mar 15, 2017

National Defense: The Hard Problem Jan 7, 2017

The Conflict Of Interests Inherent in Anarcho-capitalism Aug 25, 2016

Why the Austrian Business Cycle (ABC) theory is conceptually wrong Aug 23, 2016

On the justification of “Longer processes are more productive” Jun 30, 2016

National defense: the hard problem and its true free-market solution Jan 16, 2016

A Free Market Alternative to Anarcho-Capitalism Nov 7, 2015

Why Consumer Appliances Break Oct 24, 2015

An Alternative to Minarchism and Anarcho-capitalism Apr 29, 2015

How society can avoid paying for police, court and prisons Sep 9, 2014

The contradiction between private property and the existence of state as such. A new societal organization Sep 9, 2014