http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/11/14/steven-horwitz/untangling-the-corporatist-knot/ Big Ideas for a Better World Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/11/14/steven-horwitz/untangling-the-corporatist-knot/comment-page-1/#comment-337252 Economic Notes « 36 Chambers - The Legendary Journeys: Execution to the max! Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:09:01 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?p=1072#comment-337252 [...] Steven Horwitz, writing a response on Cato Unbound to Roderick Long’s article, makes a good point that corporatism and corporate welfare are terrible ideas, but in his “let’s make peace with the left here” plea, he forgets that it’s the left that came up with corporatism and corporate welfare to begin with.  That is, after all, a goodly portion of “third way” systems (including Italian fascism).  If libertarians could use intellectual judo to get the left to remove oligopoly-forming market restrictions, bully for them, but as far as I can see it, it’d be like teaching a scorpion not to sting, for it is in the nature of the leftist to desire control and centralization (having “the best people” running things, as they can do anything). [...] [...] Steven Horwitz, writing a response on Cato Unbound to Roderick Long’s article, makes a good point that corporatism and corporate welfare are terrible ideas, but in his “let’s make peace with the left here” plea, he forgets that it’s the left that came up with corporatism and corporate welfare to begin with.  That is, after all, a goodly portion of “third way” systems (including Italian fascism).  If libertarians could use intellectual judo to get the left to remove oligopoly-forming market restrictions, bully for them, but as far as I can see it, it’d be like teaching a scorpion not to sting, for it is in the nature of the leftist to desire control and centralization (having “the best people” running things, as they can do anything). [...]

]]> http://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/11/14/steven-horwitz/untangling-the-corporatist-knot/comment-page-1/#comment-337010 Defenders of the Status Quo « Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:44:59 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?p=1072#comment-337010 [...] of the Status Quo Jump to Comments Have you read Steven Horowitz’s excellent response essay at Cato Unbound? Here’s an interesting nugget: Libertarians like me who make arguments of the [...] [...] of the Status Quo Jump to Comments Have you read Steven Horowitz’s excellent response essay at Cato Unbound? Here’s an interesting nugget: Libertarians like me who make arguments of the [...]

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