By John Dow The difference is between free markets and honourable markets. Free Markets allow fraudulence and the externalization of cost for economic actions (see Rothbard). Honourable markets disallow fraudulence …
By John Dow The enforcers (sovereigns) produce law, and as a consequence, markets. The taxpayers (subjects) use the markets, under the law, as consumers of market goods, services, and information. I would advocate …
Apr 09, 2017 6:01am RATIONAL SELF INTEREST by John Dow Assuming self-interest is rational, by punishing all non-reciprocating choices via law, acting in group interest becomes rational. I don’t care …
by John Dow Civilization emerges from 3 fundamental institutions: 1) Militia (how to compete in the violence market), 2) Property (how to compete in the production market) and 3) Marriage …
by John Dow and Curt Doolittle As I understand it, adherents to belief in Platonic Forms believe they literally exist, in some form or another, as if there’s some extra …
by John Dow A polity can only generate the sovereign power necessary to establish and defend itself via competitiveness in the violence market. Production (Brotherly) and Reproduction (Motherly) Strategies obviously …
by John Dow and Eli Harman (eds: this is an example of how propertarian argument is done.) John Dow So essentially, the maximum possible taxation that we can levy without …
by John Dow Much like thermodynamics – where energy cannot be created or destroyed merely transformed – in economics, cost cannot be created or destroyed, merely transferred. The Government offsets …