1. Ideas (and people) are mobile, courtesy of Austan Goolsbee.
2. A Libertarian in Congress? I don’t mean Ron Paul.
3. How does the Israeli stock market react to assassinations?
4. Bringing field experiments to a new level.
5. How dangerous was the airline plot? Kevin Drum opines here and here.
6. Michael Lind claims "Libertarianism is dead."
I love how the “libertarianism is dead” piece comes out at the same time as the “Libertarians see shot at Delay seat” article.
A few quotes from Lind:
“The libertarians also targeted labour market regulation, calling for abolition of the minimum wage. This would be combined with mass immigration, which would drive down wages further.”
“The limitation of options on the horizontal left-right spectrum is accompanied, however, by a growing vertical, top-bottom divide between an elite committed to globalisation and mass immigration and a populist, nationalist majority.”
Can anyone recognize Cowen/Tabarrow in these quotes?
I’m rather inclined to discount the small amount of the earth not covered by God’s Own Country (the US of A), but it would seem odd to call a political ideology dead based entirely on one country (a term that does not quite describe the U.S.S.R). Furthermore, the changes in the political fortunes of libertarianism do not seem that momentous. Perhaps it was never alive, and anarchism has always been even deader?
hmph … Libertarianism is dead … no one bothered to inform me of this.
*chuckles* I think it’s abjectly hysterical that Lind makes these claims that the libertarian movement is dead and uses the public voting results as a measure of how successful the movement is. We all know that the vast
majority of american voters suffer from a crippling case of rational ignorance, and react to signaling like one of Pavlov’s pets…
Just an observation from a humble college student.
Comments on this entry are closed.