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- From: starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr)
- Subject: Re: An Observation
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.083713.764@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
- Keywords: Ethical Problems,Marginal Problems
- Organization: UDel, School of Life & Health Sciences
- References: <C10oz7.19G@newcastle.ac.uk> <1993Jan22.121827.18170@genie.slhs.udel.edu> <1jsp2oINNsoa@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:37:13 GMT
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- In article <1jsp2oINNsoa@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> ramsay@math.ubc.ca (Keith Ramsay) writes:
- }In article <C10oz7.19G@newcastle.ac.uk> Chris.Holt@newcastle.ac.uk
- }(Chris Holt) writes:
- }| There is a clear implication that there would be less unemployment
- }| less squalor, and less crime under a more laissez-faire government.
- }
- }I would like very much to know for sure whether this is true.
- }
- }In article <1993Jan22.121827.18170@genie.slhs.udel.edu>
- }starr@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Tim Starr) writes:
- }|[...] I can think of two
- }|standards of proof for the implication in question: historical case studies,
- }|and deduction from the action axiom of Ludwig von Mises.
- }
- }Perhaps you could describe for us this deduction, and/or give
- }reference(s)?
-
- How about the latter: "Man, Economy, and State," by Murray Rothbard. It's
- a bit easier upon the reader than "Human Action," by Ludwig von Mises.
- These will both go for the deductive argument. As for the historical,
- how about "The Politics of Unemployment," by Hans Sennholz, as I recall.
-
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