Wolf’s comment reminded me of something I read on the mises.org site a while ago, which described a society in which insurance companies could be competitive, free market providers of the services we commonly think of as government services these days – police, fire, justice, and defense. I found that an interesting idea, and looked for that article, but have so far been unable to locate it again. I did find another article explaining the same concepts and how it would work at:

http://mises.org/story/2874#_ftnref15

It would be very interesting to see a society of go-it-aloners such as what Ari Tai (July 18, 7:33 p.m.) wrote about try implementing such a society. Or would we need the big insurance companies, with properties spread far and wide, to implement such a society?