I urge everyone to read Roderick Long's blast at the corporate state at Cato Unbound:
Responses will be published over the next few days.
Well done, Roderick!
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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4 comments:
No kidding. What a great article and it certainly shapened my definition of the free market.
Cato!? So you are suggesting that we can all just be friends? Surely you are joking, Mr. Richman!
Luke, I try to get along with everybody.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
I've certainly encountered at LVMI a refusal by libertarians to constructively engage on corporatism, at least in the context of environmental issues, where the reflexive preference continues to be to bash enviro-commies while ignoring the abuses of liberty resulting from pervasive and prevailing corporate rent-seeking. That's certainly George Reisman's schtick.
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