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How popular is Niall "Safe-as-Houses" Ferguson's thoughts on "property rights" these days https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2wGL4ypn7C8N54r9flsvX3x/nia

• ggm 1y ago
  The problem with Ferguson's views is how contentious Ferguson is himself. I don't think you can confidently argue for them, without having to deal with the personality espousing them. He is not wildly popular with the left, somewhat oddly given Eric Hobsbawm was at least luke warm to his historicity. I don't feel confident I could argue one way or the other.
  • gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
    From above link: But now what we see is the rule of lawyers, which is something different. It’s surely no coincidence that more than a third of Senators are lawyers, and a quarter of members of the House of Representatives. But how is the system to be reformed if, as I’ve argued in these lectures, there’s so much that is rotten within it: in the legislature, in the regulatory agencies, in the legal system itself? The answer, as I shall argue in my final Reith lecture, is that reform – whether in the English speaking world or the Chinese speaking – must come from outside the realm of public institutions. It must come from the associations of civil society. It must come, in short, from us: the citizens. Sounds leftist enough. Which civil association can do the job in Australia,you think?