Samuel Bostaph wrote:
"Society" is not a decisionmaker."
Can Sam really believe that? All markets, everywhere, are social
constructs. Ownership, liability, "citizenship", exit and entry are
all socially constructed. Liberty is a social construct (read
English law). There are no economic decisions (choices, behavior,
whatever) except in a social context. "Society" may stop short of
coercively enforcing decisions (though it often doesn't), but society
absolutely and always frames the decisions (choices, behavior) that
individuals make (or the behavior which we observe).
Fred Carstensen