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mindmetoo
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thepeel
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Venezuela is following Hayek's Road to Serfdom so closely it is stunning...
For those of you who haven't read the book, here the cartoon version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6lSR62wmSo |
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cerulean808
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thepeel
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| Venezuela is following Hayek's Road to Serfdom so closely it is stunning... |
Hayek? Like Friedman, all he did was repackage the discredited 18th Century economic theory of free markets, the application of which has turned out to be unsurprisingly just as big a failure as the first time round. |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:50 am Post subject: |
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thepeel
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| Venezuela is following Hayek's Road to Serfdom so closely it is stunning... |
Hayek? Like Friedman, all he did was repackage the discredited 18th Century economic theory of free markets, the application of which has turned out to be unsurprisingly just as big a failure as the first time round. |
Lemme at him. That you had a choice of airliners to take to Korea and weren't compelled to take Pan Am is kinda evidence against that. |
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thepeel
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In this case I was not speaking of Hayek's ideas about how an economy exactly ought to be run but rather his very clear (and historically accurate) description about how a centralized planned economy creates shortages, dysfunction and eventually tyranny.
But I largely agree with his economic ideas too.
Which books of his have you read? |
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postfundie
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