http://cafehayek.com/2009/08/commerce-and-law.html where orders emerge Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://cafehayek.com/2009/08/commerce-and-law.html/comment-page-1#comment-59276 Egalitarianism is unjust « The Javelineer Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:13:07 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=5660#comment-59276 [...] » Last week, I bought Money, Markets, and Sovereignty, after reading Don Boudreaux’s recommendation. Don quotes a passage. Most wealth is created de novo in the process of applying ingenuity to [...] [...] » Last week, I bought Money, Markets, and Sovereignty, after reading Don Boudreaux’s recommendation. Don quotes a passage. Most wealth is created de novo in the process of applying ingenuity to [...]

]]> http://cafehayek.com/2009/08/commerce-and-law.html/comment-page-1#comment-59061 Coase Colored Glasses | The impossibility of “just” distribution Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:19:12 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=5660#comment-59061 [...] is among the most impressive books that I’ve read in a long time.  I quoted from it in an earlier post, and I’m sure that I’ll do so in several other posts — including this one: Most wealth is [...] [...] is among the most impressive books that I’ve read in a long time.  I quoted from it in an earlier post, and I’m sure that I’ll do so in several other posts — including this one: Most wealth is [...]

]]> http://cafehayek.com/2009/08/commerce-and-law.html/comment-page-1#comment-59057 “Social Justice” and “Income Distribution” Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:12:18 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=5660#comment-59057 [...] is among the most impressive books that I’ve read in a long time.  I quoted from it in an earlier post, and I’m sure that I’ll do so in several other posts — including this one: Most [...] [...] is among the most impressive books that I’ve read in a long time.  I quoted from it in an earlier post, and I’m sure that I’ll do so in several other posts — including this one: Most [...]

]]> http://cafehayek.com/2009/08/commerce-and-law.html/comment-page-1#comment-176082 Anonymous Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:43:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=5660#comment-176082 Commerce got a big boost from arithmetic, something the law had no control over. As knowledge goes, so goes commerce. Commerce got a big boost from arithmetic, something the law had no control over. As knowledge goes, so goes commerce.

]]> http://cafehayek.com/2009/08/commerce-and-law.html/comment-page-1#comment-176071 Anonymous Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:35:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=5660#comment-176071 Of course, trade preceded the state, but trade was a very different beast before the state, and when we speak of "trade" today, we discuss the modern beast, not the prehistoric one. I have no idea what a world governed by "natural law", in Don's sense, looks like, because I've never seen one. On the other hand, I know that Kings have claimed to rule by divine or natural right for time without memory, and they've always had their champions in the academies. Of course, trade preceded the state, but trade was a very different beast before the state, and when we speak of “trade” today, we discuss the modern beast, not the prehistoric one. I have no idea what a world governed by “natural law”, in Don’s sense, looks like, because I’ve never seen one. On the other hand, I know that Kings have claimed to rule by divine or natural right for time without memory, and they’ve always had their champions in the academies.

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