Comments on: Jim Tankersley on Matt Ridley http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/jim-tankersley-on-matt-ridley/ taking the most charitable view of those who disagree Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:21:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.32 By: John Bowman http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/jim-tankersley-on-matt-ridley/#comment-463212 Sun, 10 Jan 2016 13:39:19 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=6345#comment-463212 Tankersley was speaking somewhat sarcasticly and selectively, misrepresenting what Matt Ridley’s point about the spontaneous order that competitive free markets bring.

You can be sure Tankersley is not a fan of free markets in place of government intervention… or skyhooks as Ridley puts it in his book.

]]> By: Adrian Ratnapala http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/jim-tankersley-on-matt-ridley/#comment-463186 Sat, 09 Jan 2016 17:17:20 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=6345#comment-463186 I think Tankersley making a genuine point, which is more than a strawman when you strip away the anticaptalist wording.

“day to day commercial activites of people change things for the good” is our spin on what Tankersly spins as “everything will eventually work itself out for the better, thanks to free markets”. In addition we free market types generally claim that human attempts at non-profit do gooding are much less powerful than our commercial work (when it isn’t actively harmful!)

Put the two to together and Tankersley has a point when he claims that we boil all the useful activity in the world down to the free market taking care of everything.

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