Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 10:35:30 -0400
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: Re: Selling of Human Organs


At 7:52 PM 4/30/96, HANLY-AT-BrandonU.CA wrote:

>A libertarian however is more
>likely perhaps to argue from the point of view of rights and if there is talk
>of maximising it would be of maximising freedom.
>Free persons should be left to make voluntary bargains as they wish without
>government interference. The point is made not in terms of people's utility
>functions but in terms of rights of free people.

I guess this is what makes libertarians more appealing than neoclassicals;
I'd rather have people talk about freedom than optimality. Of course their
view of freedom is highly constricted, and market freedom depends on
deprivation and unfreedom for the masses, but at least it's got more
political substance than what Keynes called the "Benthamite calculus."

Doug

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