On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Robin Hanson wrote:
Fabio Rojas wrote:
But I have often wondered if we could measure willingness to pay
for various freedoms, perhaps by just directly asking people.
... There are two kinds of free speech whose price we can measure:
freedom of one's own speech (I
Yann Le Du wrote:
I agree that many people highly value their ability to express their
religion. But how much they value a constitutional guarantee to
such expression depends on what they think the chances are that the
government would actually try to stop them.
... can't a
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Yann Le Du wrote:
Doesn't the _existence_ of the rule participate in changing the way the
people "think the chances are that the government would actually try to
stop them" ? I think there's a retroaction process there.
You might think so, but for the longest time in
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, fabio guillermo rojas wrote:
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Yann Le Du wrote:
Doesn't the _existence_ of the rule participate in changing the way the
people "think the chances are that the government would actually try to
stop them" ? I think there's a retroaction process
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Robin Hanson wrote:
But I have often wondered if we could measure willingness to pay
for various freedoms, perhaps by just directly asking people.
I think we already have one good measure: the amount of donations to
organizations dedicated to free speech such as the ACLU.
