tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post973036759113217080..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: MIT Prof: The Kochs Will Not Takeover the WorldRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-44906164301254007472012-03-10T16:14:43.266-05:002012-03-10T16:14:43.266-05:00GT - Good point, but I think Murray was only with ...GT - Good point, but I think Murray was only with Cato before Cato moved to Washington DC. It was originally SF based. Front Street (good name!) So earlier on it may have been less 'respectable' /'responsible' (i.e. less elite friendly.) There were always some Chicago School types involved and many are very good but, as I understand it, Rothbardian and Austrian types were purged Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-28588838378951710712012-03-10T13:27:57.070-05:002012-03-10T13:27:57.070-05:00GT:
You are mistaken about Rothbard, not only in ...GT:<br /><br />You are mistaken about Rothbard, not only in your opinions about Rand's supposed influence upon him, but also regarding his role in the naming of the CATO Institute. <br /><br />The naming of the CATO Institute was indeed suggested by Rothbard, but it had nothing to do with the Roman Senatorial dynasty. Prof. Rothbard suggested the CATO Institute in reference to two Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-53297389032724673052012-03-10T03:23:26.823-05:002012-03-10T03:23:26.823-05:00I'm with you, anon. Sophisticated, indeed. Sel...I'm with you, anon. Sophisticated, indeed. Sell outs, more like it. <br /><br />Excellent article, Bob.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-88754854088658110472012-03-09T20:22:19.956-05:002012-03-09T20:22:19.956-05:00I'll be honest. I don't know nearly as mu...I'll be honest. I don't know nearly as much of the Kochs as Beltway libertarians would know. But, could it be that they may have had more altruistic feelings toward fellow libertarians in the 1970's? Or, perhaps at that time they had youthful optimism and trust? Perhaps they didn’t have enough experience knowing Rothbard or Crane. What if Cato, at the time, was thought more of anAndrew Rulenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-5893635337181084282012-03-09T18:06:26.947-05:002012-03-09T18:06:26.947-05:00Many Cato related scholars have done good work ove...Many Cato related scholars have done good work over the years, and the "Think Tank" strategy is not without merit. In the UK for decades the IEA acted as a flag bearer for libertarian and classical liberal thinking. Those of us old enough to remember the pre-web days can remember how isolated libertarians were, at least outside the US. Even meeting another one was a rare event. In thoseearth that washttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03635503399458271477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-77632531728282985842012-03-09T15:34:29.301-05:002012-03-09T15:34:29.301-05:00Sophisticated policy discussion! So that's wha...Sophisticated policy discussion! So that's what they get up to. Goodness gracious! No wonder few have heard of Cato. It's an irrelevance. It is irrelevant to the living. <br /><br />Liberty is not a difficult principle to understand. It does not require being filtered, pastuerised, fractionated, mixed with other ingredients (like the usual socialist preservatives), reconstituted (to seek Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-44504518508873454282012-03-09T14:53:05.640-05:002012-03-09T14:53:05.640-05:00"...the fact that he was in the pretentious, ..."...the fact that he was in the pretentious, correct-line salon-intellectual circle of that Rand harridan..."<br /><br />You call yourself a "fanboi" of Rothbard after writing something like that? In the first place, Rothbard is an anarcho-capitalist, WAYYY too radical for Rand. In the second, Rothbard was dismissed as a potential cultist by Rand because he refused to stop Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-32404591332218705372012-03-08T20:57:16.903-05:002012-03-08T20:57:16.903-05:00I for one would be glad to see the Cato Institute ...I for one would be glad to see the Cato Institute go under. I say this as an absolute Rothbard fanboi (hell, I even excuse the fact that he was in the pretentious, correct-line salon-intellectual circle of that Rand harridan).<br /><br />I can simply not 'grok' why Rothbard would name a libertarian institute after Cato Minor; it must have occurred to him that MANY people would assume it Kratoklasteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656600074436057305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-84420050844340422142012-03-08T16:32:24.410-05:002012-03-08T16:32:24.410-05:00"I have seen Rothbard and Mises t-shirts, but..."I have seen Rothbard and Mises t-shirts, but I have never heard a conversation about Cato or seen anyone ever reading a Cato publication."<br /><br />Your dismissal of Cato is a bit overblown. Cato, and its scholars, has thousands of followers on Twitter, has thousands of visits to its site libertarianism.org, and is generally known among educated lovers of freedom.<br /><br />It'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com