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Using Schelling’s analysis of mutual coordination and focal points, I interpret Smithian sympathy as sentiment coordination. When the yearning for sentiment coordination seeks, further, for it to encompass the whole social group and looks naturally to government for the focal points, we have...
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Conservatives say they are for small government and individual liberty, but a content analysis of leading conservative … magazines shows that most have preponderantly failed to take pro-liberty positions on sex, gambling, and drugs. Besides many … anti-liberty commissions, the magazines may be criticized for anti-liberty omission—that is, failing to oppose anti-liberty …
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desirable always concords with liberty (or maximal liberty). Rothbard achieved this concordance by molding his sensibilities … about the desirable to fit his definition of liberty. Hayek achieved this concordance by molding his definition of liberty … ought to reject the precept of concordance: the desirable does not always concord with liberty. I attempt a blending of …
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In the main, Hayek favored rules that apply equally to all and located such rules in tradition, beyond conscious construction. This led Hayek to attack Keynes’s immoralism, i.e. the position that one should be free to choose how to lead one’s life irrespective of the informal institutions in...
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