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I really recommend that you do not try to convince people about the merits of anarchy by using the idea of "rational self-interested people". Ditto. This is a quick way to get shut down. If you're arguing from anything like the rational-actor theory or homo economicus then you're on the wrong track. "Rational" in the Austrian
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First RT Long IS NOT an Austrian he is a mutualist. I'm not sure where you're getting that Roderick Long is a mutualist. He identifies as a "left-libertarian" but very much uses Austrian theory in his ecomonic views. To be an Austrian doesn't mean you also have to be a strict Rothbardian or right-libertarian. Here's a peice
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Geologist in environmental consulting Hopefully not for too much longer because I hate this industry, haha.
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I'm all for growing big beards and everything, but Adam needs to keep that shit trim.
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How a libertarian became a Pennsylvania State Police informant Huh, interesting. She was the founder of Drexel's Students for Sensible Drug Policy, and apparently ended up turning in a bunch of other activists. I've seen her at the End the Fed rallies here in Philly. I believe she was an Agorist, although I might be wrong about that.
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Oil exploration is a great counter example to that claim. Literally billions must be invested to get large scale production. And there is significan risk, if you're off in your calculations and plans, you could spend 80-100 million drilling into a salt dome and get a dry well. The difference is that if you waste 80 million in the oil industry, you're
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However, I think insurance companies could pass the cost onto wanton CO2 emitters by increasing their own risk premiums. This would be akin to charging a person who refuses to get vaccinated higher health-insurance premiums. But would this amount to a "carbon tax"? I don't think so, because the wanton emitters would be free to not pay
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Spharion, here's an interesting, if not strictly libertarian, solution that's based on market pricing and doesn't involve trading carbon credits or other complicated schemes: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2009/20090226_WaysAndMeans.pdf Basicaly, the idea would be to have a carbon emission tax that is transferred into a dividend
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Man that forum is a viper's den. Talk about getting zerged. Yeah, lots of people with lots of time, and the forum is usually well educated and intelligent people so you can't be lazy and skate by on half-assed arguments. The rest of the forums though are great, high quality, and pretty useful/funny. Everything from video games to cars to cocktail