----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad DeLong" <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
>But again you concede the point. In fact, without a state, people
>can get pretty large private armies together. Others will respond in
>kind, and we enter Nozick's grim world of "dominant protective
>associations," the baddest of which imposes the state and
>libertarian economics in the end.
If I'm the head of the baddest dominant protective association, why the hell should I want to impose libertarian economics? Why not just enslave everybody else, including Robert Nozick? What's in it for me?
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Nothing in libertarian economics to prevent voluntary slavery so you'd only need to give people the the incentives....David Ellerman poked wicked fun at the whole edifice and pointed out the logic was implicit in the ridiculousness of capitalist labor contracts to boot.......
Ian