Difference between revisions of "The Short, Simple Dismissal Of Libertarianism"
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* Libertarians have no concept of the common good. | * Libertarians have no concept of the common good. | ||
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* Libertarians assume that modern markets are "natural", and ignore the government institutions which create them. | * Libertarians assume that modern markets are "natural", and ignore the government institutions which create them. | ||
* Libertarian economic arguments are based on multiple, conflicting, unrealistic economic models such as "economic man" or "rational" man. | * Libertarian economic arguments are based on multiple, conflicting, unrealistic economic models such as "economic man" or "rational" man. | ||
* Libertarians lie about the "free market": it is only an academic model. Actual markets differ enormously from the assumptions and behaviors of free market models. | * Libertarians lie about the "free market": it is only an academic model. Actual markets differ enormously from the assumptions and behaviors of free market models. | ||
* Libertarians have inadequate solutions for public goods problems. | * Libertarians have inadequate solutions for public goods problems. | ||
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* Libertarians just assume "the market will provide", even when millennia of history in hundreds of nations shows otherwise. | * Libertarians just assume "the market will provide", even when millennia of history in hundreds of nations shows otherwise. | ||
* Libertarians assume that freak examples of private provision are both desirable and can be extended everywhere. | * Libertarians assume that freak examples of private provision are both desirable and can be extended everywhere. | ||
