Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-29 Thread Bryan Caplan
Kevin Carson wrote: > > >From: Bryan Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >First, the roads and airports are already here, so there would not be > >much of a decentralizing effect of cutting off subsidies and eminent > >domain now. > > But because of the effect of subsidies in distorting the market

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-28 Thread Anton Sherwood
>> . . . suggests you mean "eminent" (rather than >> "imminent") domain . . . What he wrote first was "immanent", which makes more obvious sense than either of the above. ;) -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-28 Thread Kevin Carson
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please bear with me >as the proofreader inside suggests you mean "eminent" (rather than >"imminent") domain in referring to the alleged *right* of governments to >take >control of private property for public use. Yep, you caught me. D'oh!! ___

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-28 Thread Kevin Carson
>From: Bryan Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >First, the roads and airports are already here, so there would not be >much of a decentralizing effect of cutting off subsidies and eminent >domain now. But because of the effect of subsidies in distorting the market price link between quantity supplied

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-23 Thread Sagewhys
<<  I think you're underestimating the massive effects of state capitalist    intervention not only individuallly, but the synergy between them.     Regarding transportation subsidies alone, Tibor Machan wrote a good article    for The Freeman (August 99, I think) against not on

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-22 Thread Bryan Caplan
Kevin Carson wrote: > > I think you're underestimating the massive effects of state capitalist > intervention not only individuallly, but the synergy between them. Don't forget the synergies on the other side. > Regarding transportation subsidies alone, Tibor Machan wrote a good article > for T

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-22 Thread Kevin Carson
I think you're underestimating the massive effects of state capitalist intervention not only individuallly, but the synergy between them. Regarding transportation subsidies alone, Tibor Machan wrote a good article for The Freeman (August 99, I think) against not only transportation subsidies,

Re: Silent Takeover--IMO??

2002-07-16 Thread Anton Sherwood
john hull wrote: > What does "IMO" mean? In My Opinion. You'll also see IMH(umble)O, whence IMNSHO ... IMO is also a brand of sour cream or some such. -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/

RE: Silent Takeover--IMO??

2002-07-16 Thread Kevin Carson
Sorry. It means "in my opinion." >From: john hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Silent Takeover--IMO?? >Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 20:54:47 -0700 (PDT) > >--- Kevin Carson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

RE: Silent Takeover--IMO??

2002-07-15 Thread john hull
--- Kevin Carson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "The chief failing of the mainstream "antiglobalization" movement is, IMO, they fail to recognize the extent that the global corporate economy rests on state intervention." What does "IMO" mean? -jsh __

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-15 Thread Anton Sherwood
Bryan Caplan wrote: > A lot of regulations only kick in if you have more than 50 or 100 > employees. Some explicitly kick out, though. I dimly remember one concerning visas, that said roughly "If the HR department says the firm needs this alien employee, and the firm has >N employees, we (the IN

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-15 Thread Bryan Caplan
Kevin Carson wrote: > I would argue that the rise of transnational corporations is a "bad thing" > because they are products of state capitalism. Giant corporations, from the > late 19th century on, have been statist institutions, and the plutocrats > associated with them have been rent-seekers.

RE: Silent Takeover

2002-07-15 Thread Kevin Carson
gt;From: "Burns, Erik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Silent Takeover >Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:39:23 +0100 > >i read this awhile back; it's kind of thin. the most interesting thing is >that Ms. Hertz us

RE: Silent Takeover

2002-07-09 Thread Burns, Erik
ED]]On Behalf Of > chris macrae > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 11:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Silent Takeover> > > I ordered it from Amazon...was then told it was a poor publishers me-too > rival to Naomi Klein...would be amused to hear other views...meanwh

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-09 Thread chris macrae
I ordered it from Amazon...was then told it was a poor publishers me-too rival to Naomi Klein...would be amused to hear other views...meanwhile I would have thought Stiglitz Globalization and its Discontents should be nearer this list's essence (again a provocation to tell me how wrong I am) chri