Dishonorable Free Markets vs Honorable Natural Law Markets
By John Dow The difference is between free markets and honourable markets. Free Markets allow fraudulence and the externalization of cost for economic actions (see Rothbard). Honourable markets disallow fraudulence and the externalization of cost for economic actions. We don’t merely seek competition (and thus permit frankly Jewish-style parasitism), we seek honourable competition. Why? Because…
Joel Davis on Deflationary Government
By John Dow The enforcers (sovereigns) produce law, and as a consequence, markets. The taxpayers (subjects) use the markets, under the law, as consumers of market goods, services, and information. I would advocate a constitution as a contract of mutually enforced recipriocity (justice) between enforcers. I would advocate the enforcers appoint a supreme justice (or supreme court of…
Rational Self Interest
Apr 09, 2017 6:01am RATIONAL SELF INTEREST by John Dow Assuming self-interest is rational, by punishing all non-reciprocating choices via law, acting in group interest becomes rational. I don’t care if you reciprocate by rational self-interest or as a result of high prosociality, as long as you reciprocate. Assuming the maximization of group fitness has…
The Origins of Civilization: Militia, Property, Marriage
by John Dow Civilization emerges from 3 fundamental institutions: 1) Militia (how to compete in the violence market), 2) Property (how to compete in the production market) and 3) Marriage (how to compete in the reproduction market). The polity fails or succeeds in competition by the functionality of three institutions. Through success in the violence…
Against Platonic Forms
by John Dow and Curt Doolittle As I understand it, adherents to belief in Platonic Forms believe they literally exist, in some form or another, as if there’s some extra portion of reality beyond verifiable observation in which they exist. [ Moreover they are unable to articulate their ideas by reference to existential reality, such…
Reproductive Strategies and Markets
by John Dow A polity can only generate the sovereign power necessary to establish and defend itself via competitiveness in the violence market. Production (Brotherly) and Reproduction (Motherly) Strategies obviously require cultivation to successfully compete fundamentally in intergroup Violence (Fatherly). Without production you lack weapons technology and food and shelter for your soldiers, without reproduction…
The Economics and Ethics of Violence
by John Dow and Eli Harman (eds: this is an example of how propertarian argument is done.) John Dow So essentially, the maximum possible taxation that we can levy without diminishing the incentive to voluntarily organise production, we should levy, so that we may construct the most powerful military possible and to maximize the likelihood…
The Law of Conservation of Costs
by John Dow Much like thermodynamics – where energy cannot be created or destroyed merely transformed – in economics, cost cannot be created or destroyed, merely transferred. The Government offsets limited liability with the cost it bares to establish the sovereignty with which it can limit liability. Without a Sovereign Insurer, businesses which impose damages…