Undercoming Bias
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008At Cafe Hayek, Don Boudreaux muses.
Archive for the ‘Hayek’ Category
Hayek on “Safety Nets”
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Jim Henley launched a very instructive discussion below on the point that F.A. Hayek, among other libertarians, was open to social-safety net legislation. Certainly with regard to Hayek this was so. From Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom (bear in mind that in this work Hayek employs the term “liberal” to essentially mean what today in America is commonly thought of as “libertarian”), my emphasis: (more…)
A Part of the Possible
Monday, June 2nd, 2008I want to make sure to point people toward Will Wilkinson’s recent essay on taking the openness of Hayek, Friedman and Buchanan toward a social safety net seriously. No time for me to say more right now - it’s past midnight and I just finished my work work for the day and I’m very very sleepy - but I want to peg the piece for discussion.
Why Jim Henley is Fucking Special
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008As one of those penitents who came to initially support the invasion of the Iraq and now regards it as the most irresponsible political decision she’s ever made, I well appreciate my Unqualified Offerings’ host and co-blogger, Jim Henley’s, disdain for those who got it wrong, when he was dismissed as unSerious for opposing the mad venture. Jim posits an alternate universe in which he meets Kenneth Pollack, who inquires of Jim with regard to Jim’s having been right: “What the fuck was so special about you, anyway?” A few excerpts from Jim’s post, which ought to be read in its entirety: (more…)
Part II: Why I am a libertarian and not a conservative, especially in the era of neocon hegemony
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Below I set forth my position as a non-conservative, Hayekian libertarian with recourse to excerpts from Hayek’s own rejection of conservatism. I further pointed out via an interview with the former publisher of National Review, William Rusher, that during the Cold War era libertarians and conservatives co-existed in the GOP, in a “fusionism” that was always tense.
Why I am a libertarian and what that means in my case, Part I
Sunday, February 10th, 2008My liberal co-blogger, Angelica, raises the excellent point that not all libertarians adhere to the same set of values. So true, that. When encountering one who claims the label one may in fact be meeting a “glibertarian” apologist for neocon authoritarianism, as well-exemplified by Glenn Reynolds. To put it mildly, I’m not a Reynolds type “neo-libertarian.” Nor am I a Republican (or Democrat).