tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36094163.post8784499490430706729..comments2022-11-23T08:54:20.788-07:00Comments on The Radical Liberal: Brian J. Gladishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08060107207216764612noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36094163.post-21239002363841646062013-05-09T15:22:16.499-07:002013-05-09T15:22:16.499-07:00@Jon... Thanks for reading "Let Go and Let t...@Jon... Thanks for reading "Let Go and Let the Market" - you are probably one of just a couple of dozen people who have. It was an early, more naive version of what I believe now, although I wouldn't consider it inconsistent.<br /><br />I think of the unmodified market as the result of all actions - voluntary or not, human or not - and that it embodies an evolutionary system that operates in a scientific manner - not institutionally, with peer review journals and academic societies, but as a process. Just as science sometimes generates a bad theory (phlogistin, the aether, Lamarkian evolution, etc.), the market can generate a bad theory. Modern government is such a bad theory.<br /><br />Now, just as science does not prohibit a bad theory, neither does the market. In the market, bad theories last as long as people generally perceive them as serving their interests. An advantage of the <i>free</i> market is that profit is a clear indicator of a success to do so, while loss is a clear indicator of failure.<br /><br />Let me know if you still have questions, and I'll do my best to respond.Brian J. Gladishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08060107207216764612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36094163.post-34724597584489331052013-05-09T08:10:01.026-07:002013-05-09T08:10:01.026-07:00This really didn't make any sense to me. If th...This really didn't make any sense to me. If the market is whatever people say property is then wouldn't modern governments just be a product of the market?<br /><br />The same argument made against universal ethics seems to be the same argument one could make against the market as proposed in your paper, i.e., a lion isn't going to recognize that you own yourself.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05518762624199557168noreply@blogger.com