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Do you think the typical examples, like frontier settlers or pre-state Ireland, don’t translate to modern settings for some reason?
The real question is compared to what. There will be some degree of security and dispute resolution, so what you must mean is that people would prefer the cost of government services to the cost of private.
Did frontier settlers use market-based security and dispute resolution mechanisms? I'm not familiar with the history. I would've assumed that they still appointed leaders and used some sort of non-market-based enforcement of rules
Did frontier settlers use market-based security and dispute resolution mechanisms?
In the sense that they didn't have access to state services and had to figure things out amongst themselves. I don't know much about the extent of any commercial services.
Right, and the transition from low trust to high trust society doesn't have to be unsupported by security products and services. That's what makes this an interesting question.
(my position is you still probably need some minimal government provision of basic security and dispute resolution; I don't buy into the idea that markets can provide that entirely on a private basis)