--- In [email protected], Chris Edes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip] >If the market is undermined by a lack of enforceable contracts, it >may not be able to provide the solution for private contract >enforcement. 1) Contract-enforcement long predated the State. 2) There's no contract between Citizen and State, and no neutral third-party arbiter/enforcer to enforce any contract between those two parties even if there was one. >The free market appears to require prerequisites, such as a >reasonably peaceful environment for trade. Uniform and predictable >rules appear necessary for planned investment. If you look around >the world in places where there is no peace, and/or no uniform and >predictable rules, the economy is almost always in the doldrums. There's no correlation between such uniformity & predictability and States. Frequently, the places with the least uniformity & predictability have the strongest States, such as Democratic Kampuchea. Tim Starr Fight for Liberty! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fightforliberty/
