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There are very few straws in your grasp. Electors elect people, not things or acts.
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That makes the shareholder at most an elector.
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The issue of limited liability has more to do with responsibility for managerial acts than the actual shareholder's responsibility. Supposing a perfectly individualistic judicial regime, then only individuals who act would be liable for their actions. So if for example a plant manager is found guilty of poisoning a river, he will be prosecuted for
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Until the 20th century all roads were capillary roads.
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Roads are not traditionally a public good . They are a private good that was socialized in the 19th century.
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A new forum is in testing, progress being made The eternal open-source mantra. :)
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Do not underestimate the role communist factions played in the liberation of western Europe. In France in particular, they made up a large part of the resistance forces. Fighting the Soviet Union would mean using the same violent repression against these battle-hardened resistors that the Nazis had employed.
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The production of roads is something entirely different from a monopoly on justice. States have always been producers of roads and even security, but they only obtained a monopoly on justice, hence became "the modern state", in the 16th-17th centuries.
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A monopoly is a legislative limit on the supply of a market. Whether there are countless firms, one firm or zero firms makes no difference.
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It relies on it and adopts the style. Microsoft is a philosophy.