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I always believed and still believe that innovations that make our day to day tasks simpler and easier is the key to raising the standard of life. Although, in making investment more convenient we have sown the seeds of our own destruction. The primary deterrent to anyone saving or investing capital...
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[Here's the title I preferred but was apparently too long. Dang. "WSJ reveals itself as another stupid MSM #CorpSpeak organ, uninterested in Constitutional or representative government, and perversely, as an ally with Dems in engendering a oppressive, arbitrary, corrupt & broken federal...
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Lessig doesn' expressly say it, but we also need to rein in the "self-evident", "unalienable rights" of all corporations Actually, the last quip in the title are my words, not Lessig's. Last week, I noted Harvard law prof Lawrence Lessig's earlier rebuttal to Glenn Greenwald...
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Filed under: rent-seeking, corporations, religion, constitution, Lessig, limited liability, states, speech, federalism, equal protection
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"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." -- Thomas Jefferson , letter to to George Logan, 1816 "Corporations, which should be the carefully...
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There's a nice little music video out - just released by a speciality history curriiculum publishing firm - with a hsitory lesson that really seems to be hitting a chord with the growing chorus of people who are upset with government (including Glenn Reynolds , Moe Lane and some others - I expect...
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Below is another handy summary of my Constitutional arguments against #CorpSpeak and #politicsInc (Twiter hashtags, for those of you who may be unfamiliar with them), copied from another comment thread at Volokh Conspiracy . Readers should not forget that it is the state grant of limited liability that...
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Further to my four preceding posts , I copy below a further comment that I left on a thread at The Volokh Conspiracy , which I think summarizes the core Constitutional issue: TokyoTom says: John Dewey : Sorry, Tom. You can disagree with me, but the majority on the U.S. Supreme Court agrees with me. Justice...
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Further to my preceding posts on corporations and free speech , I invite others to read this semi-serious piece in Truthout that examines the implications of the United Citizens vs. FEC decision: " Personal Corporatehood: Coping With the Reason Divided of Citizens United " The author, Randall...
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Further to my preceding post on speech and corporations , I highly recommend Lawrence Lessig `s insightful short piece, " The Principled and Pure Court? A Reply to Glenn Greenwald " (HuffPo, January 27). For those who haven`t seen it yet, I take the liberty of quoting liberally (emphasis added...
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Further, virtually everyone has been ignoring (2) WHY it is that there is so much concern about corporations and their influence on (and vulnerability to) government: namely , states have allowed individuals (and now other corporations) to form separate, limited-liability legal entities that cut off...
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This is my fourth follow-up post to " Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro ", where I try to clarify the institutional frameworks for understanding and addressing resource problems, in response to confusion in comments by others. Here is my most recent comment : Cyberfarer, thank you...
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[Update: I`ve added more background on Exxon, "Malthusians" and productive engagement.] How has Rob Bradley showed his hand? By shutting down reasoned (if challenging) debate at his blog, in the face of comments that were certainly more "free market" than displayed by Rob himself...
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AMC. American Motors Corporation. Does anybody remember that one? They actually made some pretty cool cars. The Javelin and AMX come to mind. Forward thinking for the time, the AMX was a two-seat sports car with a 401 C.I.D. engine. Fast, good-handling. It actually competed well with GTOs, Camaros, Mustangs...
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Stephan Kinsella , in two recent blog posts, Left-Libertarians on Corporations "Expropriating the Efforts of Stakeholders" and Corporations and Limited Liability for Torts , kindly provided a forum to discuss the issue of the limited liability that states grant to shareholders of corporations...
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Here, in chronological order, are some legal resources on state-created limited liability for shareholders: history, alternatives, consequences and reform: Christopher D. Stone, "The Place of Enterprise Liability in the Control of Corporate Conduct", 90 YALE L.J. 1 (1980). Paul Halpern; Michael...