Tuesday, October 6, 2020

This is Going to be Interesting...

Cass Sunstein

The evil statist Mr. Nudge himself, Cass Sunstein, is putting together a work he claims is going to be about Hayekian behavioral economics.

I could be surprised, but I don't expect anything good to come out of this Sunstein production. He is an authoritarian technocrat at his core and, on top of it, he isn't a quarter of the thinker Hayek was and, judging by his past work, it is very unlikely he will understand deep Hayekian thinking.

-RW

4 comments:

  1. Sounds like a new book to refute, Robert.

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  2. Maybe he is going to celebrate why the worst rise to the top, and give some strategies to the scum on how to get their quicker.

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  3. Just do what you're told by Mama Cass..

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  4. If you look at every kind of intervention that Hayek was able to support in principle- you could easily accommodate a left democratic socialist program under it. Some of the Chicago people - for example - Henry C Simons 'A Positive Program for Laisser Faire' - could, without too much of a stretch- support an even more interventionist program.

    Back in the late 1940s Mises split from the then newly minted "neo-liberals" of the Mount Pelerin Society calling them "a bunch of socialists".

    Maybe we are going to see "neo-liberal" lists of "exceptions" enlisted to the socialist agenda- if only as a PR front.

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