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To: Shalom Israel

The thing is that in the sort of capitalism today, where an individual interacts on a daily basis with such a huge variety of people, transaction costs mount so quickly that a state that can monopolize the policing business will be more efficient than a market of competing police and courts systems. Case in point: What about international business transactions? How would you get a foreign client to pick, let alone trust, one of many private court systems?


68 posted on 02/20/2006 9:17:14 AM PST by justinellis329
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To: justinellis329
The thing is that in the sort of capitalism today, where an individual interacts on a daily basis with such a huge variety of people, transaction costs mount so quickly that a state that can monopolize the policing business will be more efficient than a market of competing police and courts systems.

In the vast majority of interactions, nobody sues anybody. Why does a monopoly make the thing more efficient? In any example ever found in history, a monopoly has resulted in worse services at higher prices.

Case in point: What about international business transactions? How would you get a foreign client to pick, let alone trust, one of many private court systems?

Multi-national corporations are essentially anarchistic already. They operate in countries in which practically anything goes, or in which bribery is a part of doing business. They employ experts in various local laws, but as long as they're careful where and how they do things, they can do practically anything they want.

Not that I'm entirely in favor of that. But to suggest that government somehow makes international business easier, cleaner or more orderly, is almost funny.

75 posted on 02/20/2006 9:35:59 AM PST by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: justinellis329

"How would you get a foreign client to pick, let alone trust, one of many private court systems?"

There are international mediators who do just that for a living, since international rule-making bodies often do not have the power to enforce their laws, while contracts with a mediation clause are easy to follow and likely to be enforced by most courts if only to avoid work. See http://www.jamsadr.com/rules/international_rules.asp


184 posted on 02/20/2006 3:40:21 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (Freedom isn't free--no, there's a hefty f'in fee--and if you don't throw in your buck-o-5, who will?)
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