Good catch... I think he is one at core though... In his ideal
situation we would digress all the way back to the constituion, which
I've always felt was the rules of minarchy written as if by demigods
themselves (to somewhat paraphrase Ben Franklin, though Minarchism
wasn't even a concept at the time, I just put that in there) but even
with the constitution we have warped it so much as to stand where we
are now, which as Stefan best describes it "in the sinking ship". So I
do feel that in his heart he is a minarchists and that his current
arguments are nothing more then attempts to try and solve the problem
at large w/o just abandoning the state all together.
Edit: In Labour Market Regulation and Economic Performance: a critical review of arguments and some plausible lessons from India
(so far the only book I've read on the topic), it seems that regulation
helps the market much more in the long run. It's a free pdf from the
Geneva International Labor Organization a.k.a ILO I just can't seem to
find out how to link the page.... but it's worth a read and maybe it's
just me who finds it a hard read (it's very technical) but a good point
I was able to derive about regulations is that it advocates in depth studies to identify the specific policies that, in each country, constrain employment creation. (everything in italics is directly from the book, couldn't figure out how to site it...) it states many more advantages to regulated markets so many in fact that they seem to outweigh the "distortionists" view or the unregulatory view...
Edit: I have no clue what I've done to cause this last unusual collection of words...
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