[ExI] Don't be a locavore fundamentalist

[Fred C. Moulton]

On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 13:27 -0700, Robert Masters wrote:
> If I understand correctly, you are making the standard libertarian
> assumption that the ultimate and sole criterion of "human welfare" is
> the judgment of the free market.  

You do not understand correctly.  The statement which you claim as the
"standard libertarian assumption" is not a libertarian assumption.  I
doubt that anyone takes it as a standard assumption;  the only use for
it is as part of a strawman argument.

Fred