Fw: Business 'rights' and free markets

[Marcel Popescu]

I thought Choate might want someone with more authority to speak on this.
Here is his reply. (Jeff Tucker is the admin of the mises.org mailing list.)

Mark

From: "Jeff Tucker"

> This looks hopeless to me. Anyone who calls the freedom of association
> "fascism on an individual level" isn't worth arguing with.
>
> jeff
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marcel Popescu" <Marcel_Popescu at microbilt.com>
> To: "Jeff Tucker" <tucker at mises.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 9:55 AM
> Subject: Fw: Business 'rights' and free markets
>
>
> I apologize for disturbing you; we're unable to convince this guy he
> doesn't
> have a clue what he's talking about, so I thought maybe we could get a few
> words from someone with more authority than us.
>
> Basically, we're talking about the Austrian school, and whether a free
> market can exist at all. We started with Tim May's statement (with which I
> agree completely) that there's no contradiction between a free market, and
> the freedom of a businessman to refuse to accept a customer, no matter on
> what grounds. Choate disagrees.
>
> Thank you, and my apologies for bothering you with such triviality. (It's
> not that I don't know how to respond - it's that this guy won't accept
> anyone because "he doesn't really understands Hayek".)
>
> Mark