Try reading Breyer's "Closing the Vicious Circle", which we're using in class this
year. It's pretty scary to think that this guy is one of the "leftwing" supremes.
Peter
Eugene Coyle wrote:
> Kennedy may have been influeced by Stephen Bryer, now on the Supreme Court,
> who wrote a 1982 book called "Regulation and Its Reform." I think Bryer was a
> staffer for a Kennedy Senate Committe on de-regulation back then. The book
> is dumbed-down Alfred Kahn, which was just MC applied to anything. Bryer's
> book is really weak. Bryer's bias against regulation and for free mkt. leaps
> off the pages. But, hey, anything that gets you a job at the Supreme Court is
> worth doing.
>
> Gene Coyle
>
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > Louis Proyect wrote:
> >
> > >One of the most forceful advocates is Ted Kennedy, who
> > >believed that Joe Six-Pack was getting cheated out of affordable air
> > >travel. I guess neglect and stupidity about air travel runs in the Kennedy
> > >family.
> >
> > Greg Tarpinian of the Labor Research Association, in a rare act of
> > lese majeste against a liberal Democrat, once theorized that the
> > reason Kennedy was such a passionate promoter of dereg was that he
> > came from merchant capital (i.e., bootlegging), and merchants always
> > want to minimize transportation costs.
> >
> > Doug
