{"id":2231,"date":"2011-07-28T12:26:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T19:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2011-07-28T12:26:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T19:26:35","slug":"joseph-singer-on-american-ambivalence-about-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2011\/07\/28\/joseph-singer-on-american-ambivalence-about-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Singer on American Ambivalence About Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice quote from Harvard law professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/faculty\/directory\/index.html?id=69\">Joseph Singer<\/a>, from the Cornell Law Review of all places:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Americans reflexively oppose &#8220;big government&#8221; but support the myriad regulations and social programs that government enacts.\u00a0 They do not want regulations, but they do want laws that protect them from unsafe products and workplaces; laws that protect them from polluted air and water; and laws that regulate land use to prevent factories from being located in the middle of residential subdivisions.\u00a0 They do not want government to interfere with the free market but they do want government to protect &#8216;hard working Americans&#8217; from losing their homes.\u00a0 They are skeptical of big government but just as skeptical of big business.\u00a0 They like the idea of small government but not the practice:\u00a0 when hard times strike, they demand government action.\u00a0 This suggests that the American people embrace both sides of the libertarian \/ progressive split.\u00a0 It turns out that we are deeply ambivalent about the relationship between law and economics.\u00a0 It also means that we we have a similar ambivalence about property rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice quote from Harvard law professor Joseph Singer, from the Cornell Law Review of all places: Americans reflexively oppose &#8220;big government&#8221; but support the myriad regulations and social programs that government enacts.\u00a0 They do not want regulations, but they do want laws that protect them from unsafe products and workplaces; laws that protect them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-zZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}