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Charles Koch libertarian think tank believes Milei's libertarian views are correct. There's not really much of substance to take from blatant biased opinion re
by piva00 2y ago
Charles Koch libertarian think tank believes Milei's libertarian views are correct.
There's not really much of substance to take from blatant biased opinion reviews of public policy, you will accept or reject it purely based on how your views already align.
- greenie_beans 2y agocrazy how they just act like kansas's austerity failure never happened
- piva00 2y agoCato ignores a lot of failures coming from austerity or deregulation initiatives, they are literally a paid mouthpiece for the world view Koch-adjacent folks have, they do not exist to provide comprehensive analysis of benefits and failures of deregulation. They solely exist to push the view regulation = bad, even to the point of a dualspeak-esque attempt to put freedom and regulation completely at odds. I do not understand who can read Cato's opinion pieces and believe it might have something substantial to be said, if you subscribe to libertarianism there are much better intellectual works to provide you arguments.
- weberer 2y ago>if you subscribe to libertarianism there are much better intellectual works to provide you arguments Got any examples?
- piva00 2y agoEven if I don't subscribe to their views, Kevin Carson, and Gary Chartier have the non-right wing form of libertarianism put up for discussion, instead of this Ayn Rand/Milton Friedman corporatist view of libertarianism.
- Jgrubb 2y agoIt's funny to think that a modern version of Crassus would start a think tank and name it Cato.
- ryandamm 2y agoAs of right now, the comments on the Marginal Revolution blog are rather telling. Generally agreeing that the two situations are not remotely the same.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoWhich is saying a lot, because the commenters on the Marginal Revolution blog are generally far to the right of the posters to that blog.
- Panzer04 2y agoArgentina's government has been a disaster for a century. It's not at all surprising to me that reining in government spending in an economy that has had 4? Defaults over the past few decades will result in an improvement.
- piva00 2y agoI'm very aware of it, growing up in Brazil an Argentinian crisis was on the news every couple of years. I'm not saying anything about the Argentinian government, I do feel something like Milei was bound to happen. I wished it never needed to be so drastic but that's just my humane side showing some bias, they needed a shock to get out of the eternal crisis. What I'm criticising is using Cato Institute's mouthpieces as an analysis of it, as if it were a model to be followed, and using this rather peculiar societal issue as a pillar to the ideas the think tank tries to push all the time, it's just blatant libertarian propaganda.
- TFYS 2y agoSeems like they've tried this before with little success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Argentina#Convertibility_Plan_(1991%E2%80%932002) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Argentina#...
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