Agoraphilia has expanded its scope by adding a couple of contributors. New blogger Jim Dow brings us this post concerning 'communitarian' Amitai Etzione .
Now, before you go and read that article, let me share some thoughts about free-marketeers and our thoughts concerning Statists*. We often feel that Statists are simply ignorant of economic science. I know, or at least I hope, that not all of them base their political philosophies on ignorance. But this article suggests that what we suspect of their ignorance may actually be true.
Even a cursory study of economics shows that Etzione's beliefs are (for lack of a better descriptor) whacked.
Go read the article.
*Statist - One who believes that the needs of the state override the needs of the individual, and override the mechanisms of individual action. (IE free markets)
