November, 2008

When Corporations Hate Markets: Best of the Blogs

Editor’s note: Every month, we search the blogosphere for the most noteworthy responses to Cato Unbound. The following are just a few from among the extraordinary number of replies that this issue has prompted.
Wirkman Virkkala writes:

I have grave doubts about any left/libertarian alliance. The left is so addicted to moralistic symbolism, group identification, [...]

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Better Incentives for Research, Not Perfection

by Dean Baker
The Conversation
November 26th, 2008

I will try to make one quick concluding point in my exchange with Roderick on patents. I realize that he doesn’t like my system because it requires that we tax people to pay for the research. But if he will agree for a moment not to make his perfect the enemy of his good, let [...]

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Free Market Firms: Smaller, Flatter, and More Crowded

by Roderick Long
The Conversation
November 25th, 2008

Our conversation on the relationship between markets and corporations has been attracting comment from around the blogosphere. Since a number of the concerns that have been raised elsewhere are ones that may be of interest to readers of the present exchange, I thought it might be worthwhile to discuss a few of them here.
Peter [...]

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Unintended Corporatism

by Steven Horwitz
The Conversation
November 24th, 2008

I think Matt may have misread the argument in my last post, at least on one point. I most definitely was not arguing that the left was the source of the occupational licensure laws that are so problematic for poor Americans. I agree with Matt that this is a classic concentrated benefits and [...]

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