The Art of Passing a Free Flying Elephant through the Eye of a Needle

[Edip Yuksel]

My recent article is a review on Prof John Tomasi's upcoming book on
the so-called Market Democracies, which is supported by Coch brothers,
the financial sponsor fo Tea Party and many other dubious institutions
promoting corporate rights and deregulation. You may post your
comments under the article:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Art-of-Passing-a-Free-by-Edip-Yuksel-110516-646.html

Here is quote:

You have a problem with the fox? Then make the fox the owner of the
chicken farm and, lo and behold, the problems are solved. I understand
the argument made by the example of "tragedy of commons," but in that
example there is no government to regulate, manage and enforce the
rules. The tragedy of commons is not necessarily an argument against
social democracies, it is against anarchism. Besides, let's accept for
the moment that private corporations in Tomasi's market democracies
would indeed work miracles in preventing negative externalities. Then
what should we do to accomplish it? "Give them ownership," suggests
Tomasi. Ownership of what? National parks? Granted. Cities? Granted.
Landfills? Granted. Forests? Rivers? Lakes? Seas? Oceans? Skies? You
may not believe it, but Tomasi hopes that we grant all of them to the
highest bidder.