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: Glum losers auction

2002-07-29 Thread sjostrom
In The Armchair Economist, Landsburg describes the Glum Losers auction. The winner (the highest bidder) gets the product and everyone else pays the amount of their bid. Has this auction ever been used? If so, any details? Cyril Morong Elections and sporting events are

Re: free-vs-competitive please reply!!

2002-07-29 Thread john hull
--- Bryan D Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What exactly is 'rectifying a conception'? It sounds like the punchline to a very, very bad joke. Begging your forgiveness, what I am trying to ask, poorly, is what is the free market, how does it differ from the competitive market as defined in

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