On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Victor Milne wrote:
> Does this mean that Dubya needed Olavsky to popularize Beisner?
I doubt it. Beisner looks pretty "lowest-common-denominater".
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> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 2:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: Citizens on the Web: Philosophical pearls from George Bush
> Jr.
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> > Here's something that can't be attributed to either Quayle or Dubya. It is
> > by the "economic" thinker, E. Calvin Beisner, behind Dubya's
> > "compassionate conservatism" guru, Marvin Olasky. Read 'em & weep,
> > sinners.
> >
> > Economics and the Image of God in Man
> >
> > Economics will be rescued from the malaise of socialism,
> > bureaucratism, and econometrics only when its roots as applied moral
> > philosophy are restored. Adam Smith, after all, was first a moral
> > philosopher, and The Wealth of Nations (1776) was largely an empirical
> > demonstration of claims he made about economic relationships based on
> > his moral philosophy in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759). The
> > center of economics' root system consists of our understanding of the
> > nature of man and of sin, justice, and grace.
> >
> [snip]
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>
Tom Walker
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