Re: Wage-Price Controls Under Nixon

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Post-modern liberalism didn't spring full-blown into being like Athena from the forehead of Zeus. It evolved rather over time from classical liberalism through several fairly-distinct phases. You're right on this. But it might be more accurate to say that at any given t

Re: Kolko 40 Years Later

From: Bryan Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kevin Carson's remarks on Kolko reminded me that I recently reread Kolko and had some comments to share. Just for background: Kolko's *Triumph of Conservatism* was written largely as a left-wing attack on mainstream liberalism. Kolko's message was that m

Re: Kolko 40 Years Later (Away from office)

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Re: Kolko 40 Years Later

In a message dated 6/19/03 6:28:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >The main "good" it provides is a negative one, that of keeping homelessness > >and starvation to a low enough level to prevent political instability. > This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces homelessness and starva

Re: Kolko 40 Years Later

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> The main "good" it provides is a negative one, that of keeping >> homelessness and starvation to a low enough level to prevent >> political instability. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces homelessness > and starvation rat

Re: Kolko 40 Years Later

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 6/19/03 6:28:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >The main "good" it provides is a negative one, that of keeping homelessness > >and starvation to a low enough level to prevent political instability. > This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces

Re: Kolko 40 Years Later

In a message dated 6/19/03 10:28:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >>In a message dated 6/19/03 6:28:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> >The main "good" it provides is a negative one, that of keeping >>homelessness >> > >> >and starvation to a low enough level t

Re: Kolko 40 Years Later

In a message dated 6/19/03 9:40:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> The main "good" it provides is a negative one, that of keeping > >> homelessness and starvation to a low enough level to prevent > >> political instability. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This of

Re: Wage-Price Controls Under Nixon

I think in all fairness that the mixture of people with differing ideologies among the Progressives (or New Liberals as they were called in Britain) shifted substantially over the period from 1890 to 1940 from primarily libertarianish to primarily statist, and that the shift followed a fairly st