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To: Thure Meyer who wrote (23397)6/3/1999 10:43:00 PM
From: Gerald R. Lampton  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
Government (i.e, those social constructs we use to regulate our interaction in communities) has always been the backdrop for all activity. The rules of the game are an implicit intervention.

If you had a solid grounding in classical liberal jurisprudence, which you can get by reading Hayek's "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty," you would understand the difference between what Justice Thomas in his dissent in the Saenz decision calls "positive law" ("measures" in Hayek's terminology) and what Hayek calls general rules of just conduct.

Both Mises and Hayek, cranks that they are, would argue that not all "rules of the game," as you call them, are the product of government, and that intervention is very different from the application of a rule of law, i.e., of just conduct.

On a more positive note, I certainly agree with the last part of your post.
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