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Re: [OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US?

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Re: Hayek was right. Twice.

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From: Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED] But when the yield does not go to the one who created the master copy, why should anyone create anything, anymore? (Or, more realistically, why should people create at an efficient level?) There's no such thing as efficient level, except in the tautology

[OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US?

2002-07-03 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 3 Jul 2002 at 2:36, Anonymous wrote: At the time, the U.S. faced a significant chance of a Communist/Socialist revolution such as had been seen in several other countries. Class warfare was widespread, The high point of support for socialism among the masses in the US was the

Re: [OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US?

2002-07-03 Thread Michael Motyka
Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just curious, but what was the rationale under which private posession of gold was made illegal in the US? It boggles the mind... snip However doing a straight devaluation was politically unacceptable at the time. Because the dollar was pegged to gold,

Re: Hayek was right. Twice.

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Re: [OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US?

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Re: Hayek was right. Twice.

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On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, R. A. Hettinga wrote: For me, this is all about Coase's theorem, transaction cost, Coase's observation that you can't have a market without property, Quite. Coase's reasoning demonstrated that any initial allocation of property rights is equivalent (both in the allocative

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2002-07-03 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Thu, Jul 04, at 01:26AM, Sampo Syreeni wrote: | I can't see a market defined as anything else than private property and | voluntary exchange. | | Then you really must be blind. Markets not based on private property or | volition abound. The political process is one of them.

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Re: maximize best case, worst case, or average case? (TCPA)

2002-07-03 Thread Anonymous
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Re: [OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US? (Re: to outlaw general purpose computers)

2002-07-03 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 7:31 PM -0500 on 7/2/02, Harmon Seaver wrote: Wasn't the dollar backed by silver for quite awhile? There were definitely real silver dollars coined for quite awhile, and the dollar said something on it about silver certificate. Likewise many smaller coins had a high silver content --

Re: [OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US?

2002-07-03 Thread jamesd
-- On 3 Jul 2002 at 2:36, Anonymous wrote: However doing a straight devaluation was politically unacceptable at the time. Because the dollar was pegged to gold, devaluing the dollar meant in effect increasing the value of gold in terms of dollars. This would represent a tremendous

Re: Hayek was right. Twice.

2002-07-03 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, R. A. Hettinga wrote: Rival means that only one person can own something at once. That, technically, is the case with anything digitable. No. It is the case with the digitized version, but not the work. Nobody would argue that actual copies aren't normal, private goods. One

Re: [OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US?

2002-07-03 Thread Marcel Popescu
From: Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] Even libertarian monetarists such as Milton Friedman agree that this is the proper approach when dealing with a depression. Murray Rothbard's law number 17: all economists specialize in the field they suck most. Friedman is good in many areas, but he sucks

Re: Hayek was right. Twice.

2002-07-03 Thread Marcel Popescu
From: Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED] But when the yield does not go to the one who created the master copy, why should anyone create anything, anymore? (Or, more realistically, why should people create at an efficient level?) There's no such thing as efficient level, except in the tautology

Markets (was Re: Hayek was right. Twice.)

2002-07-03 Thread Marcel Popescu
From: Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's no such thing as efficient level, except in the tautology the market outcome is always efficient. Only if you take as granted a market based on some fixed set of property rights and other rules of exchange. If you do this, there is no reason to

Re: maximize best case, worst case, or average case? (TCPA)

2002-07-03 Thread jamesd
-- On 3 Jul 2002 at 10:48, xganon wrote: Do you really think that DRM systems could eliminate cypherpunk applications? Have you thought this through in detail? Please expand on it. The system as specified is harmless, because it can run anyone's code, and thus can run napster like

[OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US?

2002-07-03 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 3 Jul 2002 at 2:36, Anonymous wrote: At the time, the U.S. faced a significant chance of a Communist/Socialist revolution such as had been seen in several other countries. Class warfare was widespread, The high point of support for socialism among the masses in the US was the

Re: Hayek was right. Twice.

2002-07-03 Thread Michael Motyka
Marcel Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : From: Sampo Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED] But when the yield does not go to the one who created the master copy, why should anyone create anything, anymore? (Or, more realistically, why should people create at an efficient level?) There's no such thing

Re: [OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US?

2002-07-03 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
Roosevelt needed to in effect devalue the dollar during the Great Depression. However doing a straight devaluation was politically unacceptable at the time. Because the dollar was pegged to gold, devaluing the dollar meant in effect increasing the value of gold in terms of

Re: [OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US?

2002-07-03 Thread Michael Motyka
Anonymous [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just curious, but what was the rationale under which private posession of gold was made illegal in the US? It boggles the mind... snip However doing a straight devaluation was politically unacceptable at the time. Because the dollar was pegged to gold,

Re: [OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US?

2002-07-03 Thread Tim May
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 08:50 AM, Michael Motyka wrote: IIRC many of the wealthy were quick enough to ship huge amounts of gold to Europe. That is one reason I have heard given that the St Gauden's $20 gold pices of that era are possibly poor investments - there is a reservoir of them

Re: Hayek was right. Twice.

2002-07-03 Thread R. A. Hettinga
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 12:41 PM +0300 on 7/3/02, Sampo Syreeni wrote: No. It is the case with the digitized version, but not the work. What is a CD but a copy of a work, Sampo? Record companies sell *records*, right? A copy on my hard drive is *my* copy. I can, in

Re: Hayek was right. Twice.

2002-07-03 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Marcel Popescu wrote: There's no such thing as efficient level, except in the tautology the market outcome is always efficient. Only if you take as granted a market based on some fixed set of property rights and other rules of exchange. If you do this, there is no reason to

Re: [OT] why was private gold ownership made illegal in the US? (Re: to outlaw general purpose computers)

2002-07-03 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 11:34:17PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: At 7:31 PM -0500 on 7/2/02, Harmon Seaver wrote: Wasn't the dollar backed by silver for quite awhile? There were definitely real silver dollars coined for quite awhile, and the dollar said something on it about silver

Re: Hayek was right. Twice.

2002-07-03 Thread jamesd
-- We both created stuff we didn't expect to be paid for - these emails. On 3 Jul 2002 at 20:49, Sampo Syreeni wrote: True. But somehow I fail to see how one can scale this sort of reasoning to entail anything approaching one of the current TOP10 movies. First, lost of people make

Re: Hayek was right. Twice.

2002-07-03 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, R. A. Hettinga wrote: For me, this is all about Coase's theorem, transaction cost, Coase's observation that you can't have a market without property, Quite. Coase's reasoning demonstrated that any initial allocation of property rights is equivalent (both in the allocative

Re: Markets (was Re: Hayek was right. Twice.)

2002-07-03 Thread jamesd
-- On 4 Jul 2002 at 1:26, Sampo Syreeni wrote: But try constructing an Independence Day without Will Smith. Or the special effects. Or the soundtrack. Or the distribution chain. Try guaranteeing that it arrives on schedule without making a loss. I think you will not be able to accomplish

Re: Markets (was Re: Hayek was right. Twice.)

2002-07-03 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Marcel Popescu wrote: I can't see a market defined as anything else than private property and voluntary exchange. Then you really must be blind. Markets not based on private property or volition abound. The political process is one of them. Social control is another. Gift

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Re: Markets (was Re: Hayek was right. Twice.)

2002-07-03 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Thu, Jul 04, at 01:26AM, Sampo Syreeni wrote: | I can't see a market defined as anything else than private property and | voluntary exchange. | | Then you really must be blind. Markets not based on private property or | volition abound. The political process is one of them.

Re: Hayek was right. Twice.

2002-07-03 Thread Sampo Syreeni
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Anonymous wrote: Ignoring market failures (such things as public goods and externalities), markets are efficient in the sense that they produce a Pareto optimal outcome. Even if you neglect market failures in the usual sense, an outcome such as everybody becoming a slave to