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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Thomas Woods and His Critics, The Austrian vs. Distributist Debate Among Catholics
My initial thought is that if the poles are the Distributivist view and the Lew Rockwell view, then there is a simply vast amount of real estate between them. So much real estate that avoiding both is not only possible but rather easy.
My second thought is that the distributivists seem much fonder of authoritative claims than I feel comfortable with and the Austrians a little to dependent on what are really metaphysical claims about homo economicus.
2 comments:
Blackadder has a fascinating follow-up post:
http://the-american-catholic.com/2010/09/09/is-economics-universal/
Very interesting article.
My initial thought is that if the poles are the Distributivist view and the Lew Rockwell view, then there is a simply vast amount of real estate between them. So much real estate that avoiding both is not only possible but rather easy.
My second thought is that the distributivists seem much fonder of authoritative claims than I feel comfortable with and the Austrians a little to dependent on what are really metaphysical claims about homo economicus.
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