On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Michael Meeropol <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have had some very interesting interactions with economists from the > FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION a Hayekian "free market" institute. > > For the last five or so years that I worked at Western New England College > (and in the past two years as well since I've retired) they have come to the > college and made presentations. For the past few years, they have actually > engaged in debates with some local radicals. > > What I find interesting about these folks, at least, is that they are not > HERITAGE FOUNDATION hacks --- they are sincere supporters of "free market" > solutions. >
the "Austrians" seem to have a very nice theory, while they seem principled. It's with practice that they have problem (though they're not the only ones with this problem). They provide "libertarian" rhetoric that business types use to get government subsidies, etc. There's a nice word I encountered lately: "austerian," combining "Austrian" and "austerity," as with "let's let the recession solve itself (in a "natural" way) even if it destroys the lives of millions..." -- Jim Devine "All science would be superfluous if the form of appearance of things directly coincided with their essence." -- KM _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
