Comments on: Making the Grade http://aaeblog.com/2008/10/07/making-the-grade/ "Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy. Fri, 25 May 2012 10:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Joel Schlosberg http://aaeblog.com/2008/10/07/making-the-grade/comment-page-1/#comment-260908 Joel Schlosberg Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:21:52 +0000 http://praxeology.net/blog/2008/10/07/making-the-grade/#comment-260908 So, whatever happened to the French liberal movement? How did it go from the country where the very term "laissez-faire" was coined, to where classical liberal ideas are almost non-existent? A while back, Anthony de Jasay had an essay where he said that "in French 'liberal' is a pejorative word, often meant as an insult, and liberalism is a farrago of obsolete fallacies that only the stupid or the dishonest have the audacity to profess." http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_09_3_7_dejasay.pdf I don't know if it's quite *that* bad, but still, one wonders what happened. So, whatever happened to the French liberal movement? How did it go from the country where the very term “laissez-faire” was coined, to where classical liberal ideas are almost non-existent?

A while back, Anthony de Jasay had an essay where he said that “in French ‘liberal’ is a pejorative word, often meant as an insult, and liberalism is a farrago of obsolete fallacies that only the stupid or the dishonest have the audacity to profess.”
http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_09_3_7_dejasay.pdf
I don’t know if it’s quite *that* bad, but still, one wonders what happened.

]]> By: The Art of the Possible » Blog Archive » Regulation: The Cause, Not the Cure, of the Financial Crisis http://aaeblog.com/2008/10/07/making-the-grade/comment-page-1/#comment-258720 The Art of the Possible » Blog Archive » Regulation: The Cause, Not the Cure, of the Financial Crisis Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:58:45 +0000 http://praxeology.net/blog/2008/10/07/making-the-grade/#comment-258720 [...] In my previous post I explained how Austrian price theory renders both state-socialist central planning and free-market plutocracy unworkable; in the present post, I explain how Austrian price theory applies to boom-bust cycles in general and the present financial crisis in particular, and why those who blame the crisis on the free market have things precisely backward. [...] [...] In my previous post I explained how Austrian price theory renders both state-socialist central planning and free-market plutocracy unworkable; in the present post, I explain how Austrian price theory applies to boom-bust cycles in general and the present financial crisis in particular, and why those who blame the crisis on the free market have things precisely backward. [...]

]]> By: Sheldon Richman http://aaeblog.com/2008/10/07/making-the-grade/comment-page-1/#comment-256642 Sheldon Richman Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:45:09 +0000 http://praxeology.net/blog/2008/10/07/making-the-grade/#comment-256642 Didn't he use it as an American would? Didn’t he use it as an American would?

]]> By: Richard Hammer http://aaeblog.com/2008/10/07/making-the-grade/comment-page-1/#comment-256015 Richard Hammer Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:32:31 +0000 http://praxeology.net/blog/2008/10/07/making-the-grade/#comment-256015 Right on! Right on!

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