I am generally patient (an attribute one must have if living in India) but when it comes to libertarian speak I simply withdraw. Based on past experience my interactions with such views have made me no wiser. As for understanding them (Raghu's motive) what else is there to know when it comes to such thinking. It's like banging your head against the wall.
Fortunately, the economists I am around are 'political economists' of the heterodox sort otherwise I am mostly around non-economists. Generally studying the problems of the global south will automatically veer you to political economy understanding of really existing capitalism even if libertarians can find plenty of normative ammunition to shoot the state (MF was a critic of the Indian state while praising Hong Kong as the free market paradise). Btw I am also a critic of the Indian state but not in the same libertarian way. Bridging this gap is tough. Anthony Anthony D'Costa Professor of Indian Studies Asia Research Centre Copenhagen Business School Http://tinyurl.com/6r4g7ld Sent from my iPad On Oct 25, 2012, at 1:35 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > the economics profession is dominated by people who think like David. > It's useful to hone arguments against them on David's whetstone. > > > Anthony D'Costa wrote: >>> I have two good friends who are hard core libertarians. We never discuss >>> politics because it is exactly like this kind of meaningless exchanges that >>> result from such activity. Their pet subjects are Ayn Rand, privatizing the >>> post office, right to bear arms (presumably against the state), and taxes, >>> among other things. I stick to talking about beer and food! I say let >>> sleeping dogs lie. > > > > -- > Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, at > the very least you should know the nature of that evil. > _______________________________________________ > 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
