There are certainly disagreements between groups among libertarians that presumably appear trivial to outsiders, and it is possible that such disagreements become personal from time to time, but generally those on the right do not believe that the "personal is political" like those on the left, or lose light of the fact that the agreements far outweigh the disagreements, so it is highly unlikely that the disagreements between Brian Caplan and Peter Boettke will result in an axe in somebody's head.
David Shemano -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Nuwer Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 5:42 AM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] the SCOTUS health care decision On 3/29/2012 1:45 PM, Jim Devine wrote: > > > It may be true that the Right has fewer internal/sectarian squabbles > than the left does. After all, rather than embracing the democratic > "one person, one vote" principle, the Right espouses the power of > concentrated money. As far I know, the only big sectarian fight among > rightists in recent history has been that with Ayn Rand's > "collective," which did not let Big Money rule but ostensibly was > supposed to be about reason. I have observed a good deal of internal squabbling among libertarian economists. There is a big divide within the Austrian camp. One group sticks very close to the writings of Mises and Rothbard and criticizes the work of Hayek. Joseph Salerno and Peter Klein are examples of this group. Some in this camp think Hayek was a socialist! Another group sticks closer to Hayek, maintaining that Hayek's work is a critic of Mises and goes beyond praxology. Within this Hayek group there is another divide that splits between followers of Israel Kirzner and followers of Ludwig Lachmann. When O'Driscoll and Rizzo published the "Economics of Time and Ignorance" they adopted Lachmann's view of social order and the book was strongly attacked. Then there are the neo-classical libertarians who attack Austrian economics. Brian Caplan and Tyler Cowen have written critiques of Austrian views. David Friedman is also a libertarian who doesn't have time for the Austrians. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
