Over on Winterspeak, I found another convert.
….a bank should be required to keep all loans it makes on its books until maturity.
In under six hundred words he provides a solution to a great deal of the problem. [...]
The crisis over climate data has been met with numerous statements about preserving the “sanctity” or trust in the wisdom of science and scientists. As if our scientists were an improvement over their theological predecessors, or their pragmatic and prostituting [...]
The difference between the schools of quantitative and behavioral of economics consists largely in which errors they choose to accept in furthering the utility of their craft.
Each of these schools masters a set of conceptual levers with which they [...]
A left-leaning blog-squatter on Economist’s View repeatedly makes requests for simplistic reasoning, thereby making his level of understanding, that by which all rhetoric should be judged: a measure which is obviously arbitrary.
All expressions are increasingly abstract evolutions of directly [...]
1) From the private sector: We don’t need stimulus we need credit. Banks simply wont lend. While the process of correcting bank balance sheets is underway, that same process must occur in small and medium sized business before any turnaround [...]
RE: “One way to look at the Bush years is that job growth was lousy so the Fed (and the government policies) subsidized construction jobs by creating a housing bubble. That jobs program abruptly ended. It is now time for [...]
There was a great deal of research and discourse on technology in medicine when computing systems began to enter the operating room in the 1990′s. In particular, in the use of anesthesia. The most commonly discussed example was a difference [...]
Paul Krugman wrote today, poking fun at prestidigitators in the financial sector. As the most public advocate of forcible redistribution, I thought it was appropriate to poke back.
The understanding that we obtain from reading the predictions of the [...]
Another response from “A Shaky Start” on Economists View
RE: “One way to look at the Bush years is that job growth was lousy so the Fed (and the government policies) subsidized construction jobs by creating a housing bubble. That [...]
I’m going to say something. It will only take a moment. And my time is at least as valuable if not more so than the state’s, the court’s, or that of the officers’.
You see, I understand something very important.
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About
Curt Doolittle
Seattle, WA, United States
"De Philosophia Aristocratia"
I am an independent theorist of Political Economy in the Austrian Libertarian tradition. As a methodological Propertarian, I support the Property and Freedom Society, The Mises Institute, and the Neo-Classical LIberalism Movement.Purpose
Anglo Conservatism is the remnant of the European Aristocratic Manorial system and the Classical Liberal philosophy of the Enlightenment, combined with our ancient tribal instincts for group persistence and land-holding. It currently consists as a set of sentiments rather than as an articulated rational philosophy. And without that rational articulation, conservatives lack the ability to create and promote a plan that is a positive and rhetorically defensible alternative to the hazards of accidental bureaucracy and purposeful socialism.
This lack of an articulated philosophy leaves conservatives vulnerable in the public debate with Schumpeterian public intellectuals whose advantage in both volume of production, and simplicity of argument poses a nearly insurmountable challenge.
Libertarianism by contrast, is a rational philosophy of an articulate but permanent minority. It is based upon a solid, rational and critical methodology, even if it is flawed in its initial assumption: the principle of non-violence.
Unfortunately the Rothbardian Anarchist movement has appropriated the term "Libertarian", and left Classical Liberals and Conservatives alienated from the only system of thought with which they need to articulate their political sentiments in rational and empirical rather than moralistic and sentimental form.
By repairing the flaws in Libertarian philosophy we can use its methodology to provide a rhetorical solution for conservatives - a language which in turn may become an articulated philosophical body of argument and advocacy for the frustrated conservative majority.
Recent Posts
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Putting The American Failure To Support Britain Over Argentina In Strategic Context
32 days ago -
Four Levers Of Policy Create An Opportunity For Exchange
33 days ago -
A Not So Funny, All Too True. Anti Immigration Cartoon
33 days ago -
Teasing Karl Smith: The Futility Of Teaching Pigs To Sing
33 days ago -
An Argument In Support Of Faith As A Limit On The State
34 days ago -
WORD BUDGETS: Writing vs Speaking, and the Male vs Female myth.
35 days ago -
Why Are Conservatives Happier?
35 days ago -
Stratfor On Iran’s Strategy
36 days ago -
A Heretical Question? Do Women Have Too Much Power?
36 days ago -
Libertarian Strategy
37 days ago
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Putting The American Failure To Support Britain Over Argentina In Strategic Context