According to Greg Ransom's blog, http://hayekcenter.org/
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From Steven Hayward, The Age of Reagan, 1964-1980, The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, p. xxii:
“Lee Edwards recalls being once left along in Reagan’s study while then-Governor Reagan went to the kitchen to prepare cocktails. Edwards began browsing Reagan’s bookshelves, and was astonished to find dense works of political economy by authors such as Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek heavily underlined and annotated in Reagan’s handwriting .. “
I do not find this shocking whatsoever.
I am becoming a Burkean Whig.
- F.A. Hayek
I do There are a lot of articles on this website that debunk the myth that reagan was ever a free market president
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit and the emperor remains an emperor." ~Dream
Snowflake: I do There are a lot of articles on this website that debunk the myth that reagan was ever a free market president
So what?
jmorris84:So what?
Quite true.
A president has to make concessions.
Felipe:A president has to make concessions.
A president wants to
Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid
Fools! not to see that what they madly desire would be a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring
And Alan Greenspan was part of the inner circle of Ayn Rand, a person whose political philosophy was Free Market Capitalism.
Ayn Rand called the launch of the space shuttle an example of rationality, it was/is an example of theft.
Most people are not completely consistent throughout their lives. Those with political power and the intent to hold on to it are up there in being inconsistent with the sports commentators of the world.
Reagan also read bastiat. Check out this interview...
http://reason.com/archives/1975/07/01/inside-ronald-reagan
He also said the heart and sole of conservatism is libertarianism (which is wrong).
He preached a good game but he couldn't follow through on his rhetoric, not as governor of california and not as the president.
February 17 - 1600 - Giordano Bruno is burnt alive by the catholic church. Aquinas : "much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death."
Reagan wasn't the same after he got shot.
He was at best, a smaller government Republican.
He makes Ron Paul look like Hans Hoppe.
If you find something evil that wobbles, push it. - Gary North
Reagan nearly tripled the deficit and increased government spending in terms of GDP, I think you're doing Ron Paul a disservice by making that comment. :)
How so?
http://www.hulu.com/watch/4174/saturday-night-live-president-reagan-mastermind
We are all forgetting the wise words of Joseph Stromberg. Reagan's arm was broken for both terms of his presidency, that is why he couldn't veto anything!
'It is difficult to imagine any normal person wishing to meet Marx for a third time.' - Alexander Gray, The Socialist Tradition
CuriousGeorge: Reagan nearly tripled the deficit and increased government spending in terms of GDP, I think you're doing Ron Paul a disservice by making that comment. :)
It's probably Rothbard who wrote the most damning article on Reagan.
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Was it not Karl Marx who once said, "It's the crackbrained meddling by the authorities which can aggravate an existing crisis"?
Marx said this not because he was a free marketer, but because he had studied and knew of the empirical facts concerning the ruin that comes to the economy by government intervention.
Are Marx and Reagan free marketers? No, they are people who have the same premise of facts that free marketers have, but their actions and directions were for something else.
What Reagan did was change public opinion about the free market and the other issues he campaigned for. Before Reagan most public discourse was about what government should do about this or that. The idea that government should do nothing was always an extreme minority position and Reagan did change that.
It's hard to believe that Richard Nixon, who created the EPA, defaulted on the government's gold obligation, and instituted universal wage and price controls, was considered a conservative in his day. Or that George H.W. Bush, while a Republican congressman, introduced the first bill to federally fund abortions.
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