Who Does No Work, Shall Not Eat

[Brad DeLong]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brad DeLong" <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
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>>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.
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>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...
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>Ian

Easy to do... Sign yourself over to me as my slave, or I'll cut off your head.

It is Pareto-optimal!!!