John Stuart Mill or the ethics of liberalism: Part I, private property | 51 comments (51 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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We discussed this in Colman's diary...

Where you of course concluded that the misery for all part is true, though not in the timeframe they imagined?

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by technopolitical on Tue May 2nd, 2006 at 02:53:09 AM EST
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I used the argument that the impressive economic growth of the 20th century is due to the avilability of cheap energy (oil). Some people call that "the oil slaves of modern man".

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue May 2nd, 2006 at 02:57:45 AM EST
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You may want to revisit the diary and discussion: can we resist the iron law? and continue it here, since the original is in the archive?

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue May 2nd, 2006 at 03:00:21 AM EST
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John Stuart Mill or the ethics of liberalism: Part I, private property | 51 comments (51 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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