[EL] CPA/Zicklin

[David Ely]

To put a finer point on it,  is the political spending of for-profit
corporations really just an attempt to buy off the regulatory structure and
allow themselves to externalize costs to a maximum extent?

 

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Ely
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Which is why markets do such a poor job of dealing with external effects of
economic activity. It's hard for a consumer to separate worrying about
political views and activities from worrying about economic decisions that
externalize public costs from the price of a product. 

 

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[mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Smith,
Brad
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 9:03 AM
To: law-election at UCI.edu
Subject: [EL] CPA/Zicklin

 

CPI writes: 

 

"Watch your Netflix show, wear your Ralph Lauren shirt, brew your Keurig
coffee and deposit your paycheck at M&T Bank.

Just know that you're patronizing some of the nation's least politically
transparent companies,"

What a horrible, impoverished way to live one's life, worrying about the
political views and activities of everyone you come into contact with, and
using that to decide whether to do business with them.

 

Bradley A. Smith

Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault

   Professor of Law

Capital University Law School

303 E. Broad St.

Columbus, OH 43215

614.236.6317

http://law.capital.edu/faculty/bios/bsmith.aspx

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