tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post4697539677522704847..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Hayek: Why Intellectuals Drift Towards SocialismRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-44846428867692507502015-10-28T00:01:22.493-04:002015-10-28T00:01:22.493-04:00With all this great talk about hayek ill mention t...With all this great talk about hayek ill mention that popular science writer matt ridley just published "the evolution of everything" and is full of references to hayek and his all emcompassing evolutionary approach, he even quotes mises and mentions rothbard. Good read thus far. Hayek was and still is way ahead of his time but thankfully it looks like the mainstream intellectual world hayekianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12579315352671034973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-58315885932390027932015-10-26T12:47:51.750-04:002015-10-26T12:47:51.750-04:00This analysis also applies to the Drug War and gov...This analysis also applies to the Drug War and government schools. The intellectuals cannot believe that average people have the ability to contractually create private neighborhoods and schools where drugs and druggies are barred and where things turn out just fine. This also explains why the ghastly and predicted results of their policies, be it Stalin or Detroit, never even makes a dent in Bob Roddishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17263804608074597937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-19461128475414486672015-10-26T12:29:38.174-04:002015-10-26T12:29:38.174-04:00The economics profession itself is way off course....The economics profession itself is way off course. Keynesianism really took it down the wrong path.Wagshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14719718595125311688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-26185666771665737292015-10-26T11:36:35.677-04:002015-10-26T11:36:35.677-04:00I think "intellectuals" are much worse t...I think "intellectuals" are much worse than Hayek admits. I think they hate average people, working people and minorities. Hostility to guns and hostility to Austrian analysis really comes from this hostility to average people. They cannot bear the thought that average people can manage to live with their own guns. They cannot bear the thought that average people must be left to theirBob Roddishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17263804608074597937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-10217755752073896962015-10-26T11:27:54.342-04:002015-10-26T11:27:54.342-04:00The above video is from Hayek’s appearance on Buck...The above video is from Hayek’s appearance on Buckley’s “Firing Line” show on PBS from November 1977. I just happened to see it listed in the TV Guide that Sunday morning and recorded the audio with my student cassette recorder that afternoon. Recently, the show finally came out on DVD. I think the entire show can be seen here:<br /><br />http://hayekcenter.org/?p=5378<br /><br />The other Bob Roddishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17263804608074597937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-33383883613230757742015-10-25T20:31:07.684-04:002015-10-25T20:31:07.684-04:00I think it is also because many intellectuals beli...I think it is also because many intellectuals believe that they are smart enough to "fix" the problems of the world if only people would do what they say. And how do they get people to do what they say? Socialism of course. And when things invariably do not work out the way the Socialists planned? It's the fault of the people who won't do what their told correctly enough. It is Robert What?https://www.blogger.com/profile/03863449539859132763noreply@blogger.com