Re: Business 'rights' and free markets

2001-11-08 Thread jamesd
-- On 7 Nov 2001, at 17:21, Jim Choate wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Marcel Popescu wrote: > > > You're still incredibly deluded. Even Hayek (bad as he is) would have > > supported someone's decision NOT to sell to someone else, your rethoric > > notwithstanding. BTW, do you have anything el

RE: Business 'rights' and free markets

2001-11-07 Thread Sandy Sandfort
Reese wrote: > At 04:42 PM 11/7/01 -0800, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > >Jim, you pompous ass, > > Why not just call him a dumb cunt? Reese might have a point here. When Reese uses a derogatory term for women, he demeans all women. By calling Jimbo a pompous ass, I am demeaning all donkeys. S a n

RE: Business 'rights' and free markets

2001-11-07 Thread Sandy Sandfort
Butthead, You wrote: > It's interesting that in lambasting me for > 'knowing what Hayek would say' is EXACTLY > what you're doing. At least I back my > hubris with quotes from Hayeks works. Watch your attribution bonehead. I've not participated in the Hayek discussion at all except to point ou

RE: Business 'rights' and free markets

2001-11-07 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > Jim, you pompous ass, There's the pot calling the kettle black... > Of course I've read the books and of course I know he was against centrally > planned economies. So what? He was against more than 'planned economies'. Apparently you didn't read

RE: Business 'rights' and free markets

2001-11-07 Thread Sandy Sandfort
Jim, you pompous ass, You wrote: > On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > > > Let me get this right. Jimbo is > > CHANNELING Hayek? Yeah, right. > > Not at all, > > http://www.mises.org/hayekbio.asp > > you should read the books instead of just > trusting other peoples interpretation... >

RE: Business 'rights' and free markets

2001-11-07 Thread Jim Choate
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote: > Let me get this right. Jimbo is CHANNELING Hayek? Yeah, right. Not at all, http://www.mises.org/hayekbio.asp you should read the books instead of just trusting other peoples interpretation...he was decidedly against central or control economices (

Re: Business 'rights' and free markets

2001-11-07 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Tue, Nov 06, at 05:42PM, Marcel Popescu wrote: | And in this, he gave way to David Friedman and the like. Hayek is the least | Austrian of the Austrians. Look to Mises - or better yet, to Rothbard - to | find a much better Austrian. By and by, "better" is a relative term... |

Re: Business 'rights' and free markets

2001-11-07 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Tue, Nov 06, at 09:19AM, Tim May wrote: | Bluntly, when Choate makes strange claims about math, history, physics, | and economics, it's never worth the time to try to correct his many | wrong-headed (in our reality) ideas and definitions. Thank you for helping me see the ligh

Re: Business 'rights' and free markets

2001-11-06 Thread Gabriel Rocha
On Mon, Nov 05, at 07:44PM, Jim Choate wrote: | What does it take to create a 'free market'? Hayeks says 'perfect | competition'. Here you go using a Good Name(tm) in vain...again. | What is 'perfect competition'? "Perfect Competition" is not an Austrian idea, in fact, it is an

Business Rights and Free Markets

2001-11-04 Thread Jim Choate
Tim (and other C-A-C-L proponents) have opined that a 'business' has the 'right' to refuse service to anyone for any reason. This is clearly contrary to both the concept of 'rights' and 'free market' (and is diametricaly opposed to what C-A-C-L proponents claim(!) to want). Things don't have rig