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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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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 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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[Update: My follow-up post outlines the WSJ`s report and chief recommendations.] I thought I`d elevate what was a side and closing comment on Stephan Kinsella `s Avatar thread , about an appalling group of articles at the Wall Street Journal, which seems to have absolutely no clue about how the financial...
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In my initial post, on how Austrians strive for a self-comforting irrelevancy on climate change , I copied my chief comment to Stephan Kinsella . I copy below my other posts and some of the remarks I was responding to on Stephan`s thread , including the one that I was unable to post - for some reason...
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[Note: Stephan Kinsella tells me he has NOT put my posts on his thread on moderation. I believe him, and so (even as I fail to understand why I was unable to post a particular comment after a number of attempts), as noted I would in my original post, I withdraw my charge that he put my comments on moderation...
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[Update: Readers may wish to note the latest developments, as I note in these follow-up posts .] Stephan Kinsella - whom I have engaged before on the ramifications of the decidedly non-libertarian state grant of limited liabiility to corporations - has a new post up on the Mises Blog on global warming...
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In an earth-shaking ;) essay in today's Human Events, CEI 's Chris Horner comes clean and acknowledges that climate denialists and alarmists are peas in the same rent-seeking pod. We have encountered Horner, former lawyer and now full-time scourge of envirofascists on behalf of the firms that...
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William Anderson (an adjunct scholar of the Mises Institute and economics prof. at Frostburg State University) has a thoughtful New Year's Day post , pointing out how Paul Krugman fails to understand the causes of ouir economic stagnation and financial meltdown. I posted the following comment , in...
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Filed under: rent-seeking, enviros, yandle, Block, statism, Krugman, William Anderson, limited liability, Michael Lewis, Meiners
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In my recent post on limited liability , I argued that one of the perverse consequences of limiting shareholder responsibility for corporate torts was to create the moral hazard by which investors could capture the upside of risky activities that imposed costs on others, without having to worry about...
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[Update: Items 2 & 3 revised and an item 4 added.] J.H. Huebert and Walter Block have posted a critique of Roderick Long 's recent Cato essay . Allow me to make a few comments: 1. Huebert and Long argue that "There Is No Such Thing as Corporate Power", stating that: "Long writes...
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[update below] Fundamentalist states on an interesting thread : "Most Americans are outright socialists; the rest are socialist sympathizers. They believe that only the government can save them from capitalists." In response, I raised the following questions: Do you think Jefferson was wrong...