{"id":204,"date":"2015-06-21T13:08:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T13:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/?p=204"},"modified":"2026-06-27T13:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T03:40:01","slug":"molinaris-eleventh-soiree-on-the-private-provision-of-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/molinaris-eleventh-soiree-on-the-private-provision-of-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Molinari&#8217;s &#8220;Eleventh Soir\u00e9e&#8221; on the private provision of security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 6 April, 2015<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Molinari_Soirees_0383_TP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Molinari_Soirees_0383_TP.jpg\" alt=\"Molinari_Soirees_0383_TP\" width=\"300\" height=\"494\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/FrenchClassicalLiberals\/Molinari\/EveningsStLazare\/S11-revised.html\">revised translation<\/a> of Molinari&#8217;s &#8220;Eleventh Soir\u00e9e&#8221; on the private provision of police and defence will be published in an anthology on <em>Panarchy: Political Theories of Non-Territorial States<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.routledge.com\/books\/details\/9781138884847\/\">edited by Aviezer Tucker<\/a> and Gian Piero de Bellis for Routledge (2016). I updated the translation and added many footnotes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I originally translated it as part of my <a href=\"http:\/\/davidmhart.com\/liberty\/FrenchClassicalLiberals\/Molinari\/Thesis\/index.html\">Honours Thesis on Molinari<\/a> submitted to Macquarie University, Sydney in 1979. It was subsequently published as \u201cGustave de Molinari and the Anti-statist Liberal Tradition\u201d in three parts in the <em>Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 5, nos. 3 and 4 and Vol. 6, no. 1 (1981-82)<\/em>; and then in Edward Stringham&#8217;s anthology <em>Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice<\/em> (Independent Studies in Political Economy, 2007).<\/p>\n<p>The ToC is:<\/p>\n<p>Introduction Aviezer Tucker<\/p>\n<p>Part I: Classical Foundations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Panarchy Paul Emile de Puydt <\/li>\n<li>Panarchy: A forgotten Idea of 1860 Max Nettlau <\/li>\n<li>On the Production of Security Gustave de Molinari <\/li>\n<li>The Evenings of the rue Saint-Lazare, Eleventh Evening Gustave de Molinari <\/li>\n<li>The Cosmopolitan Union <\/li>\n<li>The Gospel of Panarchy John Zube <\/li>\n<li>Anarchy, Panarchy and Statism John Zube <\/li>\n<li>Panarchy &#8211; Described by the simple system of Aphthonius John Zube <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Part II: Contemporary theory and philosophy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Foundation for Panarchy Michael Rozeff <\/li>\n<li>Why Government Should Be Voluntarily Chosen Michael Rozeff <\/li>\n<li>The Right to Walk Away Gene Callahan <\/li>\n<li>The unbundled state: Economic theory of non-territorial unbundling Trent J. MacDonald <\/li>\n<li>The Best States: Panarchy as an Anti-Utopia Aviezer Tucker <\/li>\n<li>he Nakamoto Consensus: A Framework for Ending Bad Governance Michael Gibson <\/li>\n<li>The Great Thought Experiment Max Borders <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Part III: Historical Precedents<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extraterritoriality Shih Shun Liu <\/li>\n<li>Non-Territorial Governance, Mankind&#8217;s Forgotten Legacy Richard C.B. Johnsson <\/li>\n<li>Choose Your Own Nationality Yves Plasseraud <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Part IV: Hybrid Non-territorial and Territorial Models<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Virtual Cantons Roderick T. Long <\/li>\n<li>A Utopia? Government without Territorial Monopoly Bruno Frey <\/li>\n<li>Federalism and Non Territorial Minorities Dietmar Kneitschel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: Gustave de Molinari, <em>Les Soir\u00e9es de la Rue Saint-Lazare; entretiens sur les lois \u00e9conomiques et defense de la propri\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em> (Evenings on Saint Lazarus Street: Conversations about Economic Laws and Property) (Paris: Guillaumin, 1849), &#8220;Onzi\u00e8me Soir\u00e9e,&#8221; pp. 303-37.<\/p>\n<p>A working draft of Liberty Fund\u2019s translation of <em>Les Soir\u00e9es de la rue Saint-Lazare<\/em> (Evenings on Saint Lazarus Street) (1849) can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/pages\/molinari-s-evenings-on-saint-lazarus-street-1849\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An HTML of the original French version is <a href=\"http:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/titles\/1344\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 6 April, 2015 A revised translation of Molinari&#8217;s &#8220;Eleventh Soir\u00e9e&#8221; on the private provision of police and defence will be published in an anthology on Panarchy: Political Theories of Non-Territorial States edited by Aviezer Tucker and Gian Piero de Bellis for Routledge (2016). 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