MAI
Seth David Schoen (schoen@uclink4.Berkeley.EDU)
15 Mar 1998 07:36:34 GMT
I wrote a letter to the editor pro se about MAI, because I wanted to get it
done quickly without internal discussion, so that it has a chance of being
published while people still remember the issue.
The MAI has seemed a lot to me like a rather strong libertarian issue; it is
fairly obviously a free trade v. environmentalism/protectionism/regulation/
minimum wage/taxation issue, because it will make it substantially harder for
governments to engage in regulatory behavior. There are a lot of people
going after MAI because they are concerned about governments yielding up
power to multinational corporations; in my letter, I argued that if the laws
can be made sufficiently fair and comprehensive, there is no reason to
regulate international trade at all.
If they don't print this, or even if they do, maybe we can engage in some
MAI events. I have heard almost nothing positive about MAI, and plenty of
negatives...
--
Seth David Schoen L&S '01 (undeclared) / schoen@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Magna dis immortalibus habenda est atque huic ipsi Iovi Statori, antiquissimo
custodi huius urbis, gratia, quod hanc tam taetram, tam horribilem tamque
infestam rei publicae pestem totiens iam effugimus. -- Cicero, in Catilinam I