[lbo-talk] Ralph on the recall

[Brad DeLong]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>Interesting how "elect somebody who will be a good governor" is not 
>>on the list of things that Nader thinks are worth doing.
>>
>>What a dork.
>
>Governors are about governments, which can't be trusted, since they 
>have their own interests, unlike juries, which dissolve upon 
>delivering a verdict. Ralph doesn't seem to believe that agents can 
>be trusted or that it's possible for principals to discipline them. 
>You could call his POV anarchism, but I suspect there are a lot of 
>people at George Mason that would agree with him.
>
>Doug

To rely on personal-injury lawsuits as your *only* tool of governing 
the market seems... absurd... like something that only a 
narrow-minded and unobservant lawyer could entertain for a second as 
a desirable mode of social organization.

It leads straight to something one might call right-wing corporate 
libertarianism...

Brad DeLong