Hope is in short supply these days, while despair and hate are enjoying an enormous surplus. To give an example, there are currently two types of stories that fill my news feed. The first are about politics and the perpetual horrors it unleashes on the world: there’s a new scandal every day, and war, protectionism, and nationalism are on the rise,
“Uneducated” is the favorite insult and excuse of the political left. In the past year alone, for example, a lack of education among voters has been used to explain each of the left’s electoral failures, as well as to dismiss criticisms of its people, policies, and institutions. These defenses are dubious to say the least. Yet setting aside the
Libertarians enjoy accusing each other of blind devotion to their favorite ideas and thinkers. In fact, it almost seems like a major pastime in the liberty movement to make this charge, and to revel with others in self-congratulatory “gotcha!” moments directed toward members of the outgroup. I find this state of affairs frustrating, all the more
Joseph Schumpeter famously predicted that capitalist society would be destroyed by its own success , and the recent student protests around the US are a sign he may have been right. Although the protests don’t always have the same motivations, a troubling feature of them all is a growing hostility to the institutions of a free society, and
Austrian economics highlights the entrepreneur as the “driving force” of the economy. As a result, Austrian ideas are often at the cutting edge of new research exploring how entrepreneurs and innovators transform the world, and the many problems that result when public policy interferes with their work. However, there is sometimes confusion about
I’ve noticed that the following Rothbard quote tends to circulate periodically amongst free-market groups: “It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects
The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts . By Joe Earle, Cahal Moran, and Zach Ward-Perkins. Manchester University Press, 2017. Xix + 212 pages. The global financial crisis of ten years ago had a profound effect on the general public’s perception of the economics profession. Prior to the crisis, most people seemed only dimly
Hay escasez de esperanza hoy en día, mientras que tenemos un enorme exceso de desesperación y odio. Por dar un ejemplo, hay actualmente dos tipos de historias que llenan mi news feed . El primero se refiere a la política y los horrores perpetuos que desencadena sobre el mundo: hay un nuevo escándalo cada día y la guerra, el proteccionismo y el
[ The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts · Joe Earle, Cahal Moran y Zach Ward-Perkins · Manchester University Press, 2017 · Xix + 212 páginas] La crisis financiera global de hace diez años tuvo un efecto profundo sobre la percepción pública general de la profesión económica. Antes de la crisis, la mayoría de la gente
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