Mises Wire
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Larry J. Sechrest
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[Excerpt from “ Public Goods and Private Solutions in Maritime History ,” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 7, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 3–27.] The Sea as a Frontier Life at sea, especially in the days before steamships, radio, and radar, was remarkably similar in certain respects to life on the various land “frontiers.” In both cases, many of