[lbo-talk] License to kill, was Pentagon plans online terror bets

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jul 29 11:51:31 PDT 2003


Dwayne Monroe wrote:


>The application of casino values to matters such as
>coups, assasinations, terrorist acts and so forth is
>yet another facet of this darkly beautiful gift -
>another public manifestation of the ideas - as foul as
>rotting corpses and not as nutritious to the
>surrounding plant and animal life -which animate and
>reanimate this admnistration.

Hey, but this is just the going-to-seed of efficient market theory, born in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Markets are wise, and governments are stupid. As I recall, some of the early EM theory was funded by the Pentagon.

Doug



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