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== Economic Fairytales ==
 
== Economic Fairytales ==
There are two major bases for libertarian economic fairytales: the pseudoscientific Austrian School (especially Mises, Rothbard and Hayek) and neoliberalism (especially Chicago School and Milton Friedman.)  Arguments from both are used to promote capitalism and condemn everything else, but especially to condemn government.  The fairytales involve seldom-mentioned unrealistic assumptions such as rational man (in the case of the Austrians) and economic man in the case of the neoliberals.  It's no coincidence that those unrealistic assumptions more closely match corporations than they do human beings.
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There are two major bases for libertarian economic fairytales: the pseudoscientific Austrian School (especially Mises, Rothbard and Hayek) and neoliberalism (especially Chicago School and Milton Friedman.)  Arguments from both are used to promote capitalism and condemn everything else, but especially to condemn government.  The fairytales involve seldom-mentioned unrealistic assumptions such as rational man (in the case of the Austrians) and economic man in the case of the neoliberals.  It's no coincidence that those unrealistic assumptions more closely match the corporations that heavily subsidize these schools than they do human beings.
  
 
== A Justification of Personal Righteousness ==
 
== A Justification of Personal Righteousness ==

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