September, 2020
Polycentric Defense
Christopher Coyne
Associate Director, F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and EconomicsNathan Goodman
PhD Fellow
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Orthodox economics has long treated defense from threats foreign and domestic as a public good requiring provision by a central nation-state. Yet both theory and history show how polycentric defense systems, with dispersed groups of people searching for context-specific solutions, have provided collective security.