Michael Yates wrote:
... Stiglitz says that globalization has been driven in part by the elimination of "artificial" barriers to international movements of goods, services, money, and people. What makes whatever these barriers are "artificial?" Isn't the "market" just as artificial?"
"artificial"=political, specifically laws and regulations prohibiting or penalizing free movement and exchange. No "sovereign" state is anywhere close to foregoing such prohibitions and penalties, because to do so would reduce its "sovereignty" to that of Rhode Island. For a "nonartificial" market to exist all those barriers would have to be eliminated (making the term "international" obsolete), as would political control over (and inevitably manipulation of) the currency unit. A single world polity with a gold currency--the utopian prospect not to be realized before the final phases of the transition to communism. Shane Mage "This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 30
