"Wells's science-fiction parable fails to offer a fair test of Adam Smith's economic principles. Smith would in fact agree that to make a man invisible would be to turn him into a monster of egoism, for it would set him free from the normal discipline of the market."
"Just as everyone is born ignorant of math, so everyone is born a folk economist."
Pictures of the Socialistic Future warns that socialism, promising equality, can deliver only equal poverty and death.
"Sandel stands among the foremost communitarians and, as his previous work makes evident, he views the free market with disdain."
The only really good trends exist in two worlds right now. In the digital world, we see growth and expansion and progress. This sector is not as heavily hooked up to manipulations of the Keynesian elite, and its development has proceeded at a clip even in a depression.
Fahrenheit 451 acknowledges that powerful impulses toward mindless conformity and suppression of deviation exist in the population itself — that, on a deep level, many, many people want to be "protected" by the state from the risk of being offended and from the necessity of thinking for themselves.
Give away what isn't scarce, and make what is scarce — live performance — truly scarce and unique. Sell service and upgrades, and always foster loyalty.
There are useful and rich nuggets covering every aspect of Rothbard's intellectual project, starting with his bold call for the necessity of a pure and unsullied libertarian set of institutions and activists.
Bollinger distrusts market competition and he distrusts you and your ability to make choices about what information you wish to receive. He is a dangerous man.
