Jordan Peterson is turning his eye toward Austrian economics. Unlike the many conservatives who see free market advocacy as some sort of "dangerous fundamentalism," Peterson seems to get it.
According to this theory, cooperation among any number of persons is more productive than the individual efforts of the same persons in isolation from one another.
History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the state in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others.
Jordan Peterson is turning his eye toward Austrian economics. Unlike the many conservatives who see free market advocacy as some sort of "dangerous fundamentalism," Peterson seems to get it.
There is, in short national liberation (good) versus national "imperialism" over other peoples (bad). Once we get over simplistic individualism, this distinction should not be difficult to grasp.
The Lou Church Memorial Lecture, sponsored by The Lou Church Foundation.
Here is Murray N. Rothbard's 1968 demolition of trends in conservative thought, as printed in Ramparts magazine.
The idea of private property not only agrees with our moral intuitions—it is the sole just solution to the problem of social order.
Many of the governmental edicts are pseudo laws, rules that are annoying mainly because government has accrued to itself the sole, monopolistic authority to impose them on us.
Sometimes people—even other economists—are incredulous that the Austrians deny the possibility of interpersonal utility comparisons.
