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International trade within the context of a stateless society . . .

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I. Ryan posted on Fri, Jul 3 2009 10:29 AM

If we achieved a stateless society, then no regulation would exist within our society. However, other societies that we trade with would still have a state and still have regulations.

If you apply one regulation to an industry, then you will generally need to counter certain ill-effects somewhere else. Therefore, if foreign investors are regulated in a certain way, then could the lack of counter regulations somehow negatively affect us if they invest in our industries?

That is, if a specific regulation causes foreign investors to be able to make a stupid move without sacrificing their self interest, could that stupid move affect us negatively if they invest in our industries?

I know that this question is somewhat ambiguous; but, I did not really know how to explain it well. I hope that someone gets my point.

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I. Ryan:
If you apply one regulation to an industry, then you will generally need to counter certain ill-effects somewhere else.

what general rule are you referring to? if you write more on this sentance you might answer your questions yourself. i have faith in you !

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First, you're assuming all regulatory measures can even prevent ill ends. This isn't quite possible due to the nature of how one produces things, especially those new productions which have no epistemological equivalent in another industry (a leap from steel making to manufacturing CPUs is one thing that comes to mind...). As such, all one can do is insure against known hazards of any production process, nothing more.

Second, in a stateless society, insuring risks which can be quantified as probabilities will be really no different than how it's done today. If your manufacturing plant has the probability of producing waste products hazardous to waterways, you will insure against it, and even to keep your insurance costs down you will find ways to remove the hazardous waste in methods unlike those done before. Markets in this case due to insurable risks incentivize producers to avoid the costs of insurance by either avoiding the process altogether, or finding an alternative method (as supposed in the previous sentence).

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I. Ryan:
If we achieved a stateless society, then no regulation would exist within our society. However, other societies that we trade with would still have a state and still have regulations.
That statement isn't really true. Regulations in industry do not require a state to exist. It is even a common thing that industry associations have their own regulations and guidelines which they follow and require. Just think of ISO requirements or other general standards. They are not enforced by law, but companies may require compliance with them from their suppliers.

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