Gustave de Molinari

Author of «The Production of Security».
Frenchman, Gustave de Molinari (1819-1912) was called a Radical at his time.
Molinari was steeped in the old liberal worldview of Bastiat and hence was a dedicated champion of private property and free markets. But Molinari took matters further to argue that markets were also better at providing the service that the State claimed was its monopoly privilege: the provision of security itself.