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)
Posted by Walter at July 1, 2003 10:27 PM