Comments on: What I’m Reading http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/what-im-reading-6/ taking the most charitable view of those who disagree Mon, 21 Dec 2020 14:00:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.32 By: Matt Young http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/what-im-reading-6/#comment-388827 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 22:57:12 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=2732#comment-388827 Democracy is a stock and flow system that delivers information, mainly to the voter. Democracy is measured by the Austrian round aboutness measure.

]]> By: Matt Young http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/what-im-reading-6/#comment-388784 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 21:42:53 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=2732#comment-388784 Can giovernment systematically throw unexpected losses on the private sector? No, the money counters can count the ways to cheat better than the government can discover new ways to cheat. The best that a government can do is count down the economy to a low but stable level of efficiency. If the government goes beyond that point then Says law gets violated, mainly by citizen nullification, and the political system gets restructured.

]]> By: djf http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/what-im-reading-6/#comment-388703 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:29:11 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=2732#comment-388703 It’s sadly amusing that free-market/libertarian intellectuals like Arnold hold on to the hope that if they stifle any impulse to point out the downside of the Left’s various social policy fetishes (such as those advanced by the CRA), the Left will take them seriously, lay off the ad hominem invective, engage in dialogue and adopt some of their ideas, freeing the free marketeers from the necessity of forming a coalition with the disdained conservatives. Sorry Arnold, no matter how P.C. you free-market guys keep yourselves, it ain’t gonna happen.

]]> By: Lord http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/what-im-reading-6/#comment-388682 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 18:44:18 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=2732#comment-388682 Getting beyond the terminology, I would call liberal conservative and populist elitest, I wouldn’t call ours debtor friendly in any sense other than in providing pigs to be butchered while theirs is truly debtor friendly by preventing them from getting into much trouble in the first place, a far more nanny state than ours. Our financial elites need those pigs to slaughter, and while they know how to clothe their needs in rhetoric, it is still their needs being served.

]]> By: R Richard Schweitzer http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/what-im-reading-6/#comment-388588 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:06:54 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=2732#comment-388588 Would you accept that the differences in “Democracies” and “versions of Democracy” are actually variations in a process, which may include such variations as having or not having (or seeking) particular social objectives resulting from the process; variations in the conduct and participations in the process?

Basically, isn’t “Democracy” a process – *not* a condition?

]]> By: peterdub http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/what-im-reading-6/#comment-388575 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 15:46:00 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=2732#comment-388575 The recommended self-censorship is part of the problem.

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