Friday, February 1, 2013

Dan Ariely on Anarchy, Sort Of, or Who Is The Cop?

Behavioural economist talk about carbon trading, and he seems to advocate not a tax to control it, noting as I do that only makes permanent what should be eliminated, but transparency in who is doing the polluting, suggesting public opinion is the the better way to control it.

This is precisely what we would have in anarchy, and that is public opinion as the cop, refusal to associate as the sanction.

It is in fact the most effective deterrent available to The People.




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