Re:Silicon Valley billionaires believe in the free market, a...
by icebraining on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @04:52AM
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Well, it depends on what you consider regulation. If you take a broader view, like Benjamin Tucker did, you'll see they were in fact very regulated.
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Re:Silicon Valley billionaires believe in the free market, a...
by nickik on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @09:15AM
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Well let me give you the simplest market argument I know. Look at corrulation between economic freedom and economic size and growth.
http://www.freetheworld.com/2013/EFW2013-complete.pdf (Page 22)
Re:Silicon Valley billionaires believe in the free market, a...
by icebraining on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @09:45AM
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I'm not sure why have you decided to reply with that; if anything, by referring to Benjamin Tucker, I'm taking a position in the defense of free markets, not attacking them.
And in any case, if my position was opposed to yours, that argument wouldn't convince me anyway, since I find "economic size" and particularly "growth" to be little more than fetishes of mainstream ideologues. I'm much more easily convinced by what the economists call "consumer surplus", though I'd rather know the "worker surplus".