At Least Five Interesting Things: Will of the Masses Edition
... See moreNeoliberals’ political analysis was even worse than their economics, with perhaps even graver consequences. Friedman and his acolytes failed to understand an essential feature of freedom: that there are two kinds, positive and negative; freedom to do and freedom from harm. “Free markets” alone fail to provide economic stability or security against
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The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond
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These notions of change were shaped and hemmed in by the complex of “intellectual assumptions that have dominated the last two decades,” Giussani said. Among them: “Businesses are the engines of progress. The state should do as little as possible. Market forces are the best way at the same time to allocate scarce resources and to solve problems. Pe
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