Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-29 Thread Anton Sherwood
. . . suggests you mean eminent (rather than imminent) domain . . . What he wrote first was immanent, which makes more obvious sense than either of the above. ;) -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-29 Thread Bryan Caplan
Kevin Carson wrote: From: Bryan Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] First, the roads and airports are already here, so there would not be much of a decentralizing effect of cutting off subsidies and eminent domain now. But because of the effect of subsidies in distorting the market price link

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-22 Thread Kevin Carson
I think you're underestimating the massive effects of state capitalist intervention not only individuallly, but the synergy between them. Regarding transportation subsidies alone, Tibor Machan wrote a good article for The Freeman (August 99, I think) against not only transportation

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-15 Thread Bryan Caplan
Kevin Carson wrote: I would argue that the rise of transnational corporations is a bad thing because they are products of state capitalism. Giant corporations, from the late 19th century on, have been statist institutions, and the plutocrats associated with them have been rent-seekers. Do

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-15 Thread Anton Sherwood
Bryan Caplan wrote: A lot of regulations only kick in if you have more than 50 or 100 employees. Some explicitly kick out, though. I dimly remember one concerning visas, that said roughly If the HR department says the firm needs this alien employee, and the firm has N employees, we (the INS)

RE: Silent Takeover--IMO??

2002-07-15 Thread john hull
--- Kevin Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The chief failing of the mainstream antiglobalization movement is, IMO, they fail to recognize the extent that the global corporate economy rests on state intervention. What does IMO mean? -jsh __ Do You

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-09 Thread chris macrae
I ordered it from Amazon...was then told it was a poor publishers me-too rival to Naomi Klein...would be amused to hear other views...meanwhile I would have thought Stiglitz Globalization and its Discontents should be nearer this list's essence (again a provocation to tell me how wrong I am)

RE: Silent Takeover

2002-07-09 Thread Burns, Erik
than voters. but she's not very convincing on why this is necessarily a bad thing, in my opinion. etb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of chris macrae Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 11:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Silent