Just a Quick Post of a Quote on anarcho-capitalist .org about HANS-HERMANN HOPPE
In Democracy: The God That Failed, Hoppe compares dynastical monarchies with democratic republics. In his view, a dynastical monarch (king) is like the “owner” of a country, because it is passed on from generation to generation, whereas an elected president is like a “temporary caretaker” or “renter”. Both the king and the president have an incentive to exploit the current use of the country for their own benefit. However, the king also has a counterbalancing interest in maintaining the long-term capital value of the nation, just as the owner of a house has an interest in maintaining its capital value (unlike a renter). Being temporary, democratically elected officials have every incentive to plunder the wealth of productive citizens as fast as possible.
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According to Rothbard‘s theory [3], which Hoppe makes his own, a monopoly has nothing to do with market share, but is an institutional privilege barring “free entry” into the business of producing a particular good or service. As a consequence, such monopolies cannot arise on the free market.[citation needed] Rather, they must always be the result of government policy. Coercive monopolies are bad from the standpoint of consumers because the price will tend to be higher and the quality will be lower than they would be in markets completely free from coordinated coercion. Like Rothbard, Hoppe has conjectured that, in a free market for governmental services, competing private insurance and defense agencies would provide a better quality of protection and dispute resolution than that which currently exists under monopolistic government control.
In other words it’s governments that create the opportunity for the existence of monopolies rather than the Free Market and this is why, among other reasons, I have argued to many that the U.S. does NOT have a Free Market or even Capitalist economy.
For more on Anarcho-Capitalist and it’s advocates:
http://reason.com/blog/2013/04/03/anarcho-capitalism-so-crazy-it-just-migh
http://anarcho-capitalist.org/
There was a time when democracy or a republic such as the U.S. was when it began was thought to be ludicrous. And then it wasn’t. Maybe it’s time for a change in our thinking once again.
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Jeff Greene