Re: Wage-Price Controls Under Nixon

2003-06-19 Thread Kevin Carson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Post-modern liberalism didn't spring full-blown into being like Athena from the forehead of Zeus. It evolved rather over time from classical liberalism through several fairly-distinct phases. You're right on this. But it might be more accurate to say that at any given

Re: Kolko 40 Years Later

2003-06-19 Thread Kevin Carson
From: Bryan Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin Carson's remarks on Kolko reminded me that I recently reread Kolko and had some comments to share. Just for background: Kolko's *Triumph of Conservatism* was written largely as a left-wing attack on mainstream liberalism. Kolko's message was that

Re: Kolko 40 Years Later

2003-06-19 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 6/19/03 6:28:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The main good it provides is a negative one, that of keeping homelessness and starvation to a low enough level to prevent political instability. This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces homelessness and starvation

Re: Kolko 40 Years Later

2003-06-19 Thread Anton Sherwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The main good it provides is a negative one, that of keeping homelessness and starvation to a low enough level to prevent political instability. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces homelessness and starvation rather than

Re: Kolko 40 Years Later

2003-06-19 Thread Kevin Carson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 6/19/03 6:28:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The main good it provides is a negative one, that of keeping homelessness and starvation to a low enough level to prevent political instability. This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces

Re: Kolko 40 Years Later

2003-06-19 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 6/19/03 10:28:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 6/19/03 6:28:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The main good it provides is a negative one, that of keeping homelessness and starvation to a low enough level to prevent political

Re: Kolko 40 Years Later

2003-06-19 Thread AdmrlLocke
In a message dated 6/19/03 9:40:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The main good it provides is a negative one, that of keeping homelessness and starvation to a low enough level to prevent political instability. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This of course presumes