A Matter of Degree: The New York Subway
The small State can do to Society everything the large State can do, but not so much of it.
The small State can do to Society everything the large State can do, but not so much of it.
From the first edition of Robert P. Murphy’s Chaos Theory: Two Essays on Market Anarchy.
Narrated by Jock Coats.
When the enemy is at the gates, the individual abdicates his self-reliance and places himself unreservedly under the direction of the captain; he g
Ayn Rand's books sell between eight hundred thousand and a million copies a year. Her first novel We the Living was admired by Mencken. Night of January 16th opened on Broadway. Her major novel The Fountainhead (1943) was "masterful". Atlas Shrugged (1957) was Rand's magnus opus.
The weakness of a benevolent despotism is that there is no guarantee that it will remain benevolent. The Social Welfare State, the modern liberals' goal, is essentially a Germanic concept.
There is a reason for Krugman to pursue this false narrative, and it is not because he actually believes it.
Democracy may be a self-limiting disease, as civilization itself seems to be. There are thumping paradoxes in its philosophy, and some of them have a suicidal smack.