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Except it was American courts in the early 19th century which deviated from the Anglo-Saxon common law tradition of property rights which viewed air pollution w
by ancap 11y ago
Except it was American courts in the early 19th century which deviated from the Anglo-Saxon common law tradition of property rights which viewed air pollution was a tort.
Soviet rivers were some of the most polluted in the world.
A free-market has much stricter limits on pollution than any crony government agency.
- mixedbit 11y agoWhat are these limits if not government regulations? Are you aware of any country that doesn't have regulations to prevent pollution of rivers or air in which free-market prevents such pollution all by itself?
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoAn absence of a particular primary legislation related to pollution does not imply that the economic order is therefore laissez-faire.
- gtpasqual 11y agoGovernment regulations are not torts.
- ancap 11y agoI'm not aware of any countries where there exists a "pure" free market. While there is plenty written on the theory of enforcing laws and property rights sans government, I think it a stretch even with a government run court system, to refer to a court's ruling in behalf of property rights as "central planning". Even calling such a ruling "government regulation" seems pretty far from what most would consider "regulation".
- Florin_Andrei 11y ago> I'm not aware of any countries where there exists a "pure" free market. Unicorns are also pretty awesome - unfortunately, they seem to suffer from the fatal defect of there not being even a single instance of such a thing in consensual reality.
- ancap 11y ago>consensual reality That sounds even move elusive than the unicorns
- Florin_Andrei 11y agoGood luck with the unicorns, then.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoBy definition everything was once a "unicorn" before the resources, demand and labor were mixed into developing it. Everything must originate as a idea before it can become praxis. Modern capitalism itself was a unicorn as recently as the 18th century, but it emerged nevertheless.