Re: OT: Re: Scientific American Article On "Market" Economists

"ZerkonX" <Z@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:pan.2008.04.08.13.13.23@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:17:39 +1000, Peter Webb wrote:
>
>>> "Does free speech precede each and every free trade?"
>>>
>>>
>> I understand the question, I just can't give you an answer, because you
>> haven't defined the terms you are using. They are open to multiple
>> interpretations.
>
> I agree. The question seems interesting until one really gets down to a
> serious answer. We DO enter the area of contractual law and the meaning
> of words becomes im****tant and things are not self-evident.
>
> For instance, 'Free XXX' is not self-evident. Is there free trade when
> what is traded is a necessity of life and is being sold by only one
> concern?
>
I would think you are comparing apples to oranges.  Free trade is exactly 
what the term means, i.e. free trade.  What you are asking it seems to me,

is a question should trade be "managed" in some form or the other to 
accomplish a task, such as the issue of what impact it has on what you
refer 
to as the "necessity of life".  And "if" you "manage" trade, then by 
definition it is not free trade.