7.20.2004  The Free Market Garden  A premise of free market thought is that societies are gardens. Given proper seed, fertilizer, and sunshine (i.e., property rights, legal rules, and markets), they grow in fruitful and interesting ways. Societies are not machines, to be engineered and controlled. For a riff on this theme, see Virginia Postrel's post on I Robot, and its links to the work of scientist/SF writer Gregory Benford. posted by James DeLong : 7/20/2004 09:00:28 AM   IPcentral WebLog Blog Main Recent Posts   Good Article on Inducing Infringement & Sony Hearing on S. 2560 (Inducing Infringement) Video of ICAC Event on the DMCA Today's Menu NYT Rejoinder Landes & Posner Monograph More on Micropayments Blogger Powell . . . 10th Annual Aspen Summit Chicken Little-ism & Inducing Infringement Archives by Month   December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 Links   PFF Blog

	7.20.2004  The Free Market Garden  A premise of free market thought is that societies are gardens. Given proper seed, fertilizer, and sunshine (i.e., property rights, legal rules, and markets), they grow in fruitful and interesting ways. Societies are not machines, to be engineered and controlled. For a riff on this theme, see Virginia Postrel's post on I Robot, and its links to the work of scientist/SF writer Gregory Benford. posted by James DeLong : 7/20/2004 09:00:28 AM   IPcentral WebLog Blog Main Recent Posts   Good Article on Inducing Infringement & Sony Hearing on S. 2560 (Inducing Infringement) Video of ICAC Event on the DMCA Today's Menu NYT Rejoinder Landes & Posner Monograph More on Micropayments Blogger Powell . . . 10th Annual Aspen Summit Chicken Little-ism & Inducing Infringement Archives by Month   December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 August 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 Links   PFF Blog