Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site unmvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!unmvax!cliff From: cliff@unmvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Inflation, Unemployment, the Free Economy, and Nausea Message-ID: <694@unmvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 23-Feb-85 05:28:06 EST Article-I.D.: unmvax.694 Posted: Sat Feb 23 05:28:06 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Feb-85 05:18:33 EST References: <885@ratex.UUCP> <96@spar.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 15 > > When someone claimed that there would be no inflation in a > > Libertarian country, Baba ridiculed the idea. > > The claim was that in a Libertarian country there would be no inflation, > no unemployment, and no lawyers. I suppose I was too struck by the > similarity to what communist true believers used to say about the Soviet > Union (or, later, Cuba) to see it as anything other than dreamstuff. The claim was that in Libertaria there would be no inflation, no unemployment and that the PROWESS of a lawyer would not be the deciding factor in the judge- ment. I made that claim; I stick by it. There is quite a difference between the existance of lawyers and the ability of the sharpest lawyer to win every case. --Cliff