why don't you come to west oakland and test that theory, hood expert
Let's analyze this statement for a few paragraphs. Your implication seems to be that tp has not in fact spent much time in "the hood". But whether or not that is true is irrelevant! His reaction to your post is valid regardless and contains a statement which we can subject to analysis. If I grew up in "the hood" (I didn't) long enough to "cap" someone (I never have), what does that have to do with West Oakland (lovely city though I'm sure it is, during the daytime at least).
The exact definition of free market has been disputed and made complex by collectivist political philosophers and socialist economic ideas. This contention arose from the divergence of classical economists such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Thomas Malthus from the continental economic science developed primarily by the Spanish scholastic and French classical economists, including Richard Cantillon, Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Jean-Baptiste Say and Frédéric Bastiat. To illustrate the ambiguity, Smith discarded subjective value theory and contended that an unregulated market was prone to the rise of monopolies and was therefore not "free" in this sense. In modern economics, this split is still present both in scientific methodology and political philosophy. Neoclassical Keynesian, monetarist and Chicago school economists employ logical positivism and promote the socialisation of money, price fixed interest rates, market regulation, as well as public spending programs in order to "free" people from the inherent inequalities of laissez-faire economies.
While tp's posts are usually grating and contrarian, his point stands in my view. In sum, anybody wanna buy a mousepad?
