Comments on Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism: Sean Gabb Gives the Corporatists Nine Kinds of Fre...

Thanks for the heads-up, and for reopening an inte...

2006-09-28T22:30:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the heads-up, and for reopening an interesting debate. I don't have time to do justice to my side of it--I'm focusing more on organizational behavior issues now--so I won't try to reopen it from this end.

Suffice it to say that earlier comments seemed to be pointing to a rough consensus that there should be neither blanket immunity nor a presumption of liability. Makes sense to me. Also, as I pointed out earlier, eliminating respondeat superior might go a long way to weakening the fiction that corporate management are stewards for the owners, and leave the way open for alternative theories of firm ownership like Kellerman's. Tom Peters argued that in Japan, where holders of equity have much less direct influence over management, the direction of corporate policy tends much more to be determined by the outcome of an internal struggle between management and labor.

FYI--I posted about this post and Gabb's essay (an...

2006-09-26T08:49:00.000-07:00

FYI--I posted about this post and Gabb's essay (and his latest reply to all this) on the Mises blog here.

Excellent speech from Sean! He does a definitive d...

2005-04-20T13:04:00.000-07:00

Excellent speech from Sean! He does a definitive demolition job on the pretentions of the neocons and their vulgar libertarian bum buddies. While your typical leftist argument only goes half way, exposing neocon talk about free markets and free enterprize as fraud and hypocrisy really knocks them to the ground.