Month: June 2008
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Another Free-Market Straw Man
I get so tired of reading these pointless free-market commentaries that do nothing but state the obvious and grind the axe. Today's find: William Easterly's Financial Times article, "Trust the development experts – all 7bn of them." Easterly ridicules a recent (rather impressive, though judicious and occasionally mealy-mouthed) World Bank report on development, arguing that…
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Manzi (and Me) on Equality and Prosperity
Jim Manzi was nice enough to drop me a note in response to one of my comments, and he pointed me to his National Review piece, “A more equal capitalism: preserving the free-market consensus.” I ended up writing some lengthy responses, and not being one to waste perfectly good copy, I decided to post them…