I can&#x27;t see where Boudreaux&#x27;s comments - themselves more polemic than analysis - expose any &quot;dishonesty&quot;. I mean, one of his posts pulls out the old libertarian canard of &quot;every potentially harmful product will be effectively countered by competitors taking the equal and opposite opportunity to sell good honest consumer-friendly protection&quot; by speculating that a market solution to smells designed to induce customers to over-eat could be rival entrepreneurs selling a nose-attachment[1]! And as far as I can tell, he&#x27;s actually not trying to parody his own argument.
If that&#x27;s one of the <i>best</i> objections he can raise to an example in Akerlof and Shiller&#x27;s book it must be remarkably good by the standards of popular economics texts.<p>[1]Perhaps the only reason America doesn&#x27;t have a penchant for nose attachments and no obesity problem is because the market isn&#x27;t free enough!