[lbo-talk] Ralph on the recall

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Tue Aug 12 15:41:23 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad DeLong" <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>


> >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

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You really like strawmen don't you?

Talk about dorks........

Ian



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