Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: World Government Message-ID: <738@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 18:57:37 EST Article-I.D.: mmintl.738 Posted: Fri Oct 25 18:57:37 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 04:07:34 EST References: <1473@teddy.UUCP> <28200189@inmet.UUCP> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 22 Summary: Would enhance trade In article <28200189@inmet.UUCP> nrh@inmet.UUCP writes: >If you say: "These are examples of things where a libertarian society would >FAIL by virtue of having competing and conflicting court systems", then I >point out to you that the issue is whether trade can occur without government >making it possible, and the more such "failures", the less trade there >should be (by the Kolodney hypothesis, an impotent "world" government >should mean no world trade). Who, by the way, could Norfolk Island >get an injunction from to keep Australia from annexing it? More government = more trade does not imply that no government = no trade. World trade is significantly suboptimal because of all the protectionist things various nations do. It would be even worse if the dominant power of the post-world war II world had not vigorously persued free trade policies. (In the early 1950's, the U.S. economy was about half of the world economy.) The world would be much better off if a good world government could be established. That is a large if. Social experimentation is DANGEROUS. Frank Adams ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka Multimate International 52 Oakland Ave North E. Hartford, CT 06108