If Google’s spiders are right, the American Prospect seems to be running an article in defense of goverment (what a radical idea!) that refers to the “culty Web sites dedicated to Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises…”
Not being a subscriber, I can’t see the whole thing. Can someone paste the relevant contents as a comment here?
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“culty”? this isn’t the Ayn Rand Institute! :-p
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BugMeNot will provide a login/password.
e.g. L: prospect911 P: prospect
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Oh, this is going to be comedy!
That password/name combo doesn’t seem to work.
He’s quoting Steinbeck as the pro-gov and Reagan as the anti-gov. I can tell you right now it’s only going to go downhill from there…
Get with Deprogram!
Anyone who doesn’t agree with the democrat or the neocon republican orthodoxies becomes a heretic, or the more common term “cult” member.
But also remember cult is the root of “culture”. And this is one of the few places I find people capable of understanding culture.
Can’t get to the “culty Web sites” article, but there is a companion article with full text available: The Price of a Free Society by Paul Starr also arguing for gov’t.
He makes this observation that should look shockingly familiar:
He also bluntly makes the claim that gov’t makes rational investments:
Oh yes, I am cultist alright. I have built a golden statue to my dear god Mises. What rubbish, it seems people possess a two-sided mind.
I haven’t heard a liberal yet try to correct us on our ‘incorrect’ views of economics and morality.
I think that it may be showing of the times in that liberals don’t care a whole lot about addressing issues instead of just labelling them. But then again, they’ve always been like this…
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go and worship Mises.
Alex is right; not too many serious critiques of Austrian economics have ever been aired. All of them, in fact, fit onto one relatively short webpage (http://www.againstpolitics.com/austrian_economics/index.html), and most of them have already been replied to. More critiques are available on the Critiques of Libertarian site (http://world.std.com/~mhuben/libindex.html; some of it makes for interesting reading, the rest is worthless), but if this is the best anyone can do, then to paraphrase Foucault, the next century may be Misesian.
– Lowell R.
wait a minute, I kinda like the gold statue of Mises idea
like the gold $ in Galt’s Gulch
I kinda like the gold statue of Mises
Heh, I like large slabs of gold, no matter what shape they’re in! Sign me up!
This article only lends credence to my suggestion that someone should put votive candles under the Mises and Rothbard busts in the garden at the Mises Institute.
To settle it once and for all:
There Is But One Economics, Austrian Economics!
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Ludwig von Mises Is Her Prophet
And The Ludwig von Mises Institute Her Church.
Now that the Krugmans of the world have been handled, let’s tackle the difficult case of the Tom G. Palmers with this:
There Is But One Goddess, Freedom!
Murray N. Rothbard Is Her Prophet
And The Libertarian Movement Her Church.
Now, who opens the CaféPress Store?!! I would like at least one t-shirt of each…
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(All the above was heavily inspired by:
There Is But One God, Poseidon!
Admiral Mahan Is His Prophet
And The U.S. Navy His Church.
The unofficial motto of Annapolis!?!
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I wrote all this from the foot of the Mont-Pèlerin… Wouldn’t it be nice if we made a shrine out of the “Hôtel du Parc” so that the myriad libertarian pilgrims from all over the world could worship up there properly, mmmh?!! Wadda ya think, brothers and sisters in liberty?!?
Christoph
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Pro patria saepe, pro libertate semper.
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