Some Links On Postmodernism
By T. H. Wright
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A fair summons to those in the theological disciplines to… wait for it… be more well-read! As if we didn’t have enough to read already! But I think the criticism is fair and I would wish to not be irresponsible.
sigh. Time to add more books to the list.
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/07/61444/
In this 1999 article from the CATO Institute, Milton Frieman argues that businessmen tend to make poor decisions regarding their interactions with the government. His main argument: businessmen need to have more diligence in studying what their contributions will achieve, particularly when it comes to government interaction with the economy. His main goal: that people would understand capitalism better than they do. The refrain is a similar one as the article above: for some reason, anyone who can “[read and write]"1 feels entitled to an opinion on the economy.
https://www.cato.org/policy-report/marchapril-1999/policy-forum-milton-friedman-business-suicide
UPDATE: 20200810
Samuel Gregg writes about issues with government intervention in markets, notably that the ideas sound nice but in implementation are not so. Perhaps one of the best ways he points this out is that industrial policies (i.e., the government passing policies meant to bolster the economic sector) ultimately support specific businesses, and therefore abusive cronyism, rather than the economic sector as a whole. In some sense, he may be attempting to substantiate the argument that government intervention ultimately does not understand how capitalism is supposed work.
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/08/64708/
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A quote he uses from an author in the 19th century. ↩︎