FT article by John Kay

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Wed Sep 5 13:25:11 PDT 2001



> >> A valuable lesson from fish and forests
> >>
> >> Destroying traditional cultures in pursuit of economic ideals
does
> >more harm
> > > than good
>
> Traditional cultures and their methods of agriculture were designed
> for late-eighteenth century population densities. We now have eight
> times those population densities. *None* of the traditional ways of
> handling common-property resources work any more.
>
>
> Brad DeLong
============== Would it not follow that the entire Lockean paradigm is kaput too based as it is on *legitimating* the expropriation of those CPR's?

Ian



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