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Who Enforces the Decisions of a Private Court?

August 16, 2008

A user on Mises.org thread inquires about the nature of polycentric order, and private courts, specifically, how can non-consensual participants be bound by the decisions of private courts:
A: If we continue the example I gave, if I deliver my part of the contract and you don’t, I can’t see how you can take me […]

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Agorism and Risk Management

August 11, 2008

In “Small Scale Production and Risk Management,” I introduced the discussion of local co-operatives producing things in a black-market sense. Then I drew a hasty comparison to the current black market and said that as long as the black marketeer keeps risk in mind, it’s almost impossible to get caught. The same is […]

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Small-scale Production and Risk Management

August 4, 2008

Earlier, I wrote about how the term economies of scale is really a euphemism for special privileges and immunities. I’d like to continue that train of thought, in a tangential way, here.
So, why have we become familiar with multinationals that dwarf the economies of many lesser-developed nations? Governmens have a lot to do with it. […]

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The Involuntary Contract: Comments # 22

July 24, 2008

It’s Not Voluntary, And It’s Not a Contract shot up to #1 in terms of traffic to my site; in less than 24 hours it drove more than 300 page views. I have no idea what the referral source(s) for those are, but that’s huge.
There are a lot of comments:
csun said,
I rent my […]

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