Remark of the Week
Posted by erweinstein on February 22, 2009
This week’s Remark of the Week is from Mark Thompson:
By treating any and all social safety nets as irreversible steps on the Road to Serfdom, we [libertarians] allow liberals and progressives to shape those policies in ways that are inefficient, ineffective, and overbroad – even though Adam Smith, Hayek himself, and Friedman each advocated for a form of social safety net, demonstrating that social safety nets can be consistent with libertarianism.
Part of a continuing conversation about the future of libertarianism that includes, among others, Virginia Postrel, Will Wilkinson and Ross Douthat.
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