tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post3395795385223721871..comments2024-02-29T03:34:23.190-05:00Comments on Who Were the Sea Peoples?: Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Blogosphere?gcallahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-78693905389972844962012-02-14T02:03:05.701-05:002012-02-14T02:03:05.701-05:00The idea that the employer is "acting as the ...The idea that the employer is "acting as the agent of its employees" turns employer-employee law on its head. I don't remember ERISA principles well enough to consider whether this theory is accepted there.<br /><br />However, even if we reverse roles, the agent always has the power to condition its employment as an agent on agreement that the agent need not participate in conduct it considers immoral. If the principal wishes to pursue ends, or employ means, which are lawful but repugnant to the agent, the principal can fire the agent or hire a second agent to finish the job.<br /><br />Things can get messy if these issues come as a surprise in the middle of an assignment, but I dont think anyone is accusing Catholics of sneaking around their position on contraceptives.kgbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13826757891805546321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-85529104482539576122012-02-13T18:38:20.004-05:002012-02-13T18:38:20.004-05:00"We are all guilty of this, at times, I think..."We are all guilty of this, at times, I think. At least you 'manned up'!"<br /><br />Yup!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-81558732232873939272012-02-13T16:29:47.448-05:002012-02-13T16:29:47.448-05:00The most interesting thing about this from my pers...The most interesting thing about this from my perspective is the different conceptions of just what Catholic Health Care West is doing when it provides benefits to its employees.<br /><br />From my (and Obama's) perspective, Catholic Health Care West is acting as the agent of its employees--enabling them as a group to get a better price on what they want to buy by enabling them to present themselves as a credible pool.<br /><br />From McConnell's perspective, Catholic Health Care West is acting as a philanthropist--as its employees' benefactor. What is being paid to the insurance company is not a piece of workers' earned compensation, but rather Catholic Health Care West's money as it acts as its employees' benefactor.<br /><br />This strikes me as an interesting--and profoundly unlibertarian--take on the employer-employee relationship: a game of "let's play 'master and servant'!"bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04548019979157668776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-73164097710108829482012-02-13T13:48:15.623-05:002012-02-13T13:48:15.623-05:00Brad, as someone who has found it worth his while ...Brad, as someone who has found it worth his while to plow through "Human Action," I would urge you not to give up so easily. As I point out in the comment threads to Mike's post, things are a little more complicated than Gene suggests here. http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/von-mises-makes-the-libertarian-case-against-free-love-and-implicitly-against-birth-control/#comment-22455Corey Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17868964583403209509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-11365531748186433662012-02-13T12:23:33.098-05:002012-02-13T12:23:33.098-05:00We are all guilty of this, at times, I think. At l...We are all guilty of this, at times, I think. At least you "manned up"!<br /><br />In any case, recall that Mises quite explicitly called for full political and legal equality for women. What he was against was what he saw as utopian attempts to eliminate what he saw as natural sexual differences. We might disagree with him while recognizing that he would have advocated women's right to vote, own property, and be in every other way the full legal equals of men.<br /><br />As far as Mitch McConnell goes, I'll have to investigate what he is up to. I frankly am not even aware of anything he has said on the subject at the moment.gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-73206400423795392972012-02-13T12:17:59.548-05:002012-02-13T12:17:59.548-05:00That should read: "I would plead, unconvincin...That should read: "I would plead, unconvincingly, that..."bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04548019979157668776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-89692640007292196612012-02-13T11:56:48.889-05:002012-02-13T11:56:48.889-05:00Touché...
i would plead that I have (i) never fou...Touché...<br /><br />i would plead that I have (i) never found it worth my while to plow through "Human Action" and (ii) the number of people who are for both female sexual subordination and birth control is... rather small.<br /><br />So may I have a denunciation of Mitch McConnell for attempting to reproletarianize America?bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04548019979157668776noreply@blogger.com