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Published · transcript-backedGarett Jones: belief
26 Feb 2020 Conversations with Tyler Garett Jones on Democracy (More or Less)
“Bondholders can be a good check on government, just as voters can be a good check on the abuses of government itself. But giving them monopoly powers is far too much for any of the kind of governance systems we care about.”
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- Garett Jones
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- belief
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- 26 Feb 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…But that’s a bit like having your government run by a bondholder, right? It’s a bit like having the bondholders be a check on the voters rather than being a 100 percent alternative to voters. That’s really the difference here. Bondholders can be a good check on government, just as voters can be a good check on the abuses of government itself. But giving them monopoly powers is far too much for any of the kind of governance systems we care about. How about a government just run by the landholders — would that lead to an optimum outcome?…
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