On Oct 6, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
On Oct 6, 2009, at 3:23 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
Actually, they name themselves after an English libertarian
publication, Cato's Letters, which turns out to be quite influential in
the course of economics.
And who is the Cato that Hazlitt (no libertarian he, not even if the term were not anachronistic in his case) chose as his hero?

Apologies. The "Cato Letters" were written not by Hazlitt but by Gordon and Trenchard, a century earlier. My bad.

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:15:28PM -0400, Shane Mage wrote:

On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
I don't think that the Cato people are bad people...

Nor do I, though they name themselves after one of the worst people in
Roman history.


Shane Mage

This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."

Herakleitos of Ephesos

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