What's Happening?

[rhartford]

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"Justice Entrepreneurship in a Free Market."

http://mises.org/journals/jls/3_4/3_4_4.pdf

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"Justice Entrepreneurship Revisited: A Reply to Critics"

http://mises.org/journals/jls/3_4/3_4_8.pdf

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In response to my Post #203 George provided the above two references. If you are not familiar with his cultural analysis of "Third Party intervention in [the] quest for restitution," considerations of "restitutive risk," and implications for objective legal procedures, the above articles are well worth reading.

[Guyau]

George Smith,

I was very impressed with your essay "Justice Entrepreneurship" that was published in The Journal of Libertarian Studies many years ago. I am not and have never been an anarchocapitalist. But I have always seen your essay as one of the most important compositions supporting that position

I'm no fan of the laws of libel, slander, and defamation.

Robert, are you an anarchocapitalist?

Some of my brightest and best-educated friends are. Your remark caught my eye.

Sorry if you have already answered this question earlier and I just didn't notice.

[Robert Campbell]

I'm no fan of the laws of libel, slander, and defamation.

Robert, are you an anarchocapitalist?

Some of my brightest and best-educated friends are. Your remark caught my eye.

Sorry if you have already answered this question earlier and I just didn't notice.

Stephen,

I just now saw your question here.

I'm not an anarchocapitalist. Never have been.

I don't usually participate in limited government/anarchist debates because I have absolutely no fresh arguments to bring to a controversy that's been smoldering, if not raging, for 50 years, and that pertains to two political systems either of which would be a tremendous improvement over what is being imposed on us today.

I think that if there are libel laws at all, they should be restricted to the publication of deliberate falsehoods about someone's product or service with the purpose of harming their sales in the marketplace.

I am sympathetic to Murray Rothbard's argument that, whatever we might do to earn our reputations, they aren't our property.

And my observation has been that libel, slander, and defamation are rarely defined in any objective way; traditionally, they are that which offends someone loudmouthed and deep-pocketed enough to use part of the legal system against an opponent.

Robert Campbell

[Chris Grieb]

I'm no fan of the laws of libel, slander, and defamation.

Robert, are you an anarchocapitalist?

Some of my brightest and best-educated friends are. Your remark caught my eye.

Sorry if you have already answered this question earlier and I just didn't notice.

Stephen,

I just now saw your question here.

I'm not an anarchocapitalist. Never have been.

I don't usually participate in limited government/anarchist debates because I have absolutely no fresh arguments to bring to a controversy that's been smoldering, if not raging, for 50 years, and that pertains to two political systems either of which would be a tremendous improvement over what is being imposed on us today.

I think that if there are libel laws at all, they should be restricted to the publication of deliberate falsehoods about someone's product or service with the purpose of harming their sales in the marketplace.

I am sympathetic to Murray Rothbard's argument that, whatever we might do to earn our reputations, they aren't our property.

And my observation has been that libel, slander, and defamation are rarely defined in any objective way; traditionally, they are that which offends someone loudmouthed and deep-pocketed enough to use part of the legal system against an opponent.

Robert Campbell

Robert: On this and on other issues we are on the same page. On libel I have to add that I think things are worse in the UK>