Re: News Coverage and bad economics

2003-01-10 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 1/9/03 9:49:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hilarious! I'd already killfiled AdmrlLocke, so I hadn't read his first message. Love your answer though. Wow, I had no idea that people on the list held me in such contempt, or indeed in contempt at all. What sin or sins

Re: News Coverage and bad economics

2003-01-10 Thread john hull
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...shall I just unsubscribe then? No. Although when you go on about statists you do sound a little like Marxists when they go on about captialists. :) -jsh __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable.

RE: going on about 'statists'

2003-01-10 Thread Gil Guillory
The english term statist derives from Mises's use of the words étatist/ism and statist/ism. Mises used the term roughly to describe the opponents of laissez faire. While I do not defend any unspecified go[ing] on about 'statists', I think the word statist is useful, describes something worthy of

Re: News Coverage and bad economics

2003-01-10 Thread Bryan Caplan
Please take these discussions of personalities off-list. Thanks! -- Prof. Bryan Caplan Department of Economics George Mason University http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] He wrote a letter, but did not post it because he

Babynomics

2003-01-10 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
Question: At what can humans engage in economic behavior? Are there studies showing when children learn to trade ? Fabio

Re: News Coverage and bad economics

2003-01-10 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 1/10/03 1:53:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when you go on about statists you do sound a little like Marxists when they go on about captialists. :) -jsh I used statist-liberal and statist media to distinguish the adherents of big government from classical liberals.

Lester's extreme compatibility thesis

2003-01-10 Thread Gil Guillory
From: Pinczewski-Lee, Joe (LRC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Nothing in the state, everything against the state, everything outside the state. Which is why neither Mises, Rothbard, OR Mussolini ought never have been allowed near the levers of power. A world with the all inclusive

Re: going on about 'statists'

2003-01-10 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 1/10/03 3:31:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course, Jan Lester has pointed out that libertarian anarchists are actually probably the opposite of fascists, since one can invert Mussolini's definition of fascism to come up with a very clear statement of anarchism:

RE: going on about 'statists'

2003-01-10 Thread Fred Foldvary
--- Pinczewski-Lee, Joe (LRC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... A world with the all inclusive Corporatist State or NO state would all be equally horrific. So, we debate at the margins of the middle ground for the best mix of us and me that works best. Two questions: 1) How was Medieval anarchic

Re: News Coverage and bad economics

2003-01-10 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 1/10/03 5:07:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please take these discussions of personalities off-list. Thanks! Especially given that it's my personality people were discussing, I wholeheartedly concur. It's bad enough to have to live with my personality 24/7 without

Re: Babynomics

2003-01-10 Thread Fred Foldvary
Question: At what can humans engage in economic behavior? Are there studies showing when children learn to trade ? Fabio Humans start to engage in economic behavior as soon as they are born. Trade is not a necessary characteristic of economic behavior. The issue is rather whether infants

Re: Lester's extreme compatibility thesis

2003-01-10 Thread john hull
What prevents a particular private law enforcement agency from engaging in mob-style protection? For example, in Friedman's Anarchy and Efficient Law, he states that, The most obvious and least likely is direct violence-a mini-war between my agency, attempting to arrest the burglar, and his