Re: Query

[Jurriaan Bendien <bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"...the issue is not more versus less government [or big government versus
small government], but rather to whose interests the government gives
effect. Thus, a movement from more to less stringent requirements for the
emissions of polluting firms is not a move from more to less government
['deregulation'], but a change in the structure of rights from pollutees
to polluters. The big versus small government arguments are rhetorical
devices, persuasive mechanisms reflective of and reinforcing traditional
Western liberal ideology. The terms 'regulation' and deregulation' are
rhetorical reflections of this ideology, since whenever rights are being
changed, one party is being 'regulated' and the other 'deregulated.'
[Steven Medema "Another Look at the Problem of Rent Seeking" JEI vol. xxv
#4, 1050]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Sandronsky" <ssandron@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 5:26 PM
Subject: [PEN-L] Query


> Recently, somebody on PEN-L posted a quote from an article on government
> intervention in the JEI.  I can't recall the writer or the poster.
Advance
> thanks for answering my query.
>
> Stumbling toward the light,
> Seth Sandronsky
>
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