Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-29 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

2002-07-29 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 price link

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

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. Do

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 INS)

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 __ Do You

Re: Silent Takeover

2002-07-09 Thread chris macrae
hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 July 2002 5:28 AM Subject: Silent Takeover Howdy, Has anybody read The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy by Noreena Hertz? If so, is it any good? Curiously yours, jsh

RE: Silent Takeover

2002-07-09 Thread Burns, Erik
of globalization is the creation of non-sovereign global governance ... meddling in national affairs. i guess The Silent Takeover is a subversive book - if you picked it up as a prop for, say, protesting the G-7 you might find yourself nodding in agreement with things you're protesting against

Silent Takeover

2002-07-08 Thread john hull
Howdy, Has anybody read The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy by Noreena Hertz? If so, is it any good? Curiously yours, jsh __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com