Re: Don't Forget Mises -- and Dump the Third Way!

From: Ron Allen (rallen2_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 14:40:03 -0400

royls@telus.net wrote:
> Tell you what, Bob: why don't _you_ propose a
> definition of "free market" so we can see what
> your objections might be about?

Robert J. Kolker wrote:
> A free market exists when a willing seller and a
> willing buyer agree on the price. No coercion.
> No government interference. No worries about
> society, only the mutual good of the transaction
> participants. That is your free market.

Ron Allen answers:
Your "free market" is two individuals engaged in a
free-exchange relationship, without such practices
as engrossing or forestalling, and without any
consideration of private property in capital vs.
the personal poverty of workers, or even the very
early practice of enclosure of common lands and
peasant tillages in England's initial capitalist
beginnings.

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"War is unproductive. Trade is unproductive.
Bankers are unproductive. Money is unproductive."
-- Ron Allen

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