November, 2008

Governments Work for Special Interests, Markets Work for Ordinary People

by Roderick Long
The Conversation
November 24th, 2008

As I’m in substantial agreement with Steve Horwitz’s response, I’ll concentrate on the contributions of Yglesias and Baker. Reply to Matthew Yglesias Matthew Yglesias is puzzled by Horwitz’s contention—and by extension my own—that markets are more beneficial than government programs. It’s not so much that he disagrees with it as that it seems to him [...]

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The Case for Case-by-Case Evaluation

by Matthew Yglesias
The Conversation
November 20th, 2008

I find Steve Horwitz’s claim that “Markets, including Wal-Mart, have done more for poor Americans than any government program, at least in the long run if not the short run” to be a bit puzzling. If this means that the absence of governance à la Joseph Stalin is a more important determinant of our well-being [...]

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