This is my fourth follow-up post to " Grist and the tragedy of the panicked enviro ", where I try to clarify the institutional frameworks for understanding and addressing resource problems, in response to confusion in comments by others. Here is my most recent comment : Cyberfarer, thank you...
[Update: I`ve added more background on Exxon, "Malthusians" and productive engagement.] How has Rob Bradley showed his hand? By shutting down reasoned (if challenging) debate at his blog, in the face of comments that were certainly more "free market" than displayed by Rob himself...
AMC. American Motors Corporation. Does anybody remember that one? They actually made some pretty cool cars. The Javelin and AMX come to mind. Forward thinking for the time, the AMX was a two-seat sports car with a 401 C.I.D. engine. Fast, good-handling. It actually competed well with GTOs, Camaros, Mustangs...
Stephan Kinsella , in two recent blog posts, Left-Libertarians on Corporations "Expropriating the Efforts of Stakeholders" and Corporations and Limited Liability for Torts , kindly provided a forum to discuss the issue of the limited liability that states grant to shareholders of corporations...
Here, in chronological order, are some legal resources on state-created limited liability for shareholders: history, alternatives, consequences and reform: Christopher D. Stone, "The Place of Enterprise Liability in the Control of Corporate Conduct", 90 YALE L.J. 1 (1980). Paul Halpern; Michael...
Hare are some legal resources on state-created limited liability for shareholders, consequences and reform: Christopher D. Stone, The Place of Enterprise Liability in the Control of Corporate Conduct, 90 YALE L.J. 1 (1980). Paul Halpern; Michael Trebilcock;...
[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...
and for a legally binding UN framework to tackle climate change. Just who are these vile collectivists, red enviros, misanthropes, and others caught up in the totally groundless AGW hysteria? [Snark Alert!] Let's go to FOX News - which headlines "Top Corporations Demand Action on Global Warming"...
[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...