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Narkos Donating Member (919 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 11:57 AM
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Another Randroid quote from Hayek
That one of my libertarian friends quotes incessantly "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. " Snappy comebacks?
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Doc_Technical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 12:27 PM
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1. How about:
Why concern yourself with the rantings of a spoiled brat
rich kid who went on a life-long temper tantrum after she
had her toys taken away?
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 12:59 PM
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2. Check out my sig line.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-11 08:00 PM
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3. so why does anybody think a "conservative" mind can come up with
something new?
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angryfirelord Donating Member (248 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-16-11 03:31 PM
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4. Well, it depends on who he's talking to
It's true that this quote would hold true to someone like a Soviet central planner, who attempted to use statistics to create the ideal economy and ended up failing. However, Hayek in some regards wasn't actually an all hard-out Randian. He still believed, abet limited, that the state should still have some form of a safety net. It may have been as a way to get his ideas out at the time, but I think it shows that even he didn't know all of the answers. A lot of libertarians though still use his other quotes to promote their utopian free market.
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roamer65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-10-11 07:47 PM
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5. I usually tell them...
that the unfettered social darwinism of the 1920's proved that it is a failure. Government involvement in the economy is necessary as proved by the 1930's AND the 1940's. Roosevelt's New Deal and World War II spending revived our economy.
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