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A Response to Peter Kleins Lecture: Corporations and the Free Market by Alex Merced Listen to Peter Kleins Lecture here You've might have read in previous posts on Liberty is Now that I am one of the Libertarians who criticize corporations role in the free market. Although Let me make a few quick...
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[It looks like I'm having formatting problems; sorry, readers!] I left the following comment on Kevin Dowd's excellent April 9 Mises Daily piece, "The Current Financial Crisis - and After", a transcript of a talk he apparently made at the Paris Freedom Fest on September 13, 2009 (emphasis...
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I encourage readers to take a look at the excellent essay by Thomas R. Eddlem , Down With the Presidency! A President's Day Message , now up at LewRockwell.com. I quote first a few key portions, and then note my further thoughts. But the role of the president under the U.S. Constitution is not to...
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Further to my preceding posts on corporate "free speech" , let me copy here for those interested some parts of a post by legal blogger/law prof Kimberly Hauser , and excerpts of the comment thread (emphasis added). Says Hauser: Justice Kennedy stated in the majority opinion: “If the First...
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I won't reprise the essay referred to in my preceding post , by which Lawrence Lessig presents his view of our current problems (much of which I agree with, including his conclusion that the "conservative" Roberts Supreme Court five-Justice bloc has acted with considerable activism in overturning...
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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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On December 16, Spiegel Online ran the following interview with Elinor Ostrom , whose 2009 Nobel prize in economics (shared with Oliver Williamson ), was widely applauded by Austrian economists (and whose work I have referred to any number of time previously ). Der Spiegel asked some good questions,...
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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...