La manufactura y marketing del pánico se ha convertido en una de las más rentables ocupaciones de nuestro tiempo uno de esos “yacimientos de empleo” con los que los social-keynesianos suelen ponerse estupendos.
Todos sabemos a estas alturas que el petróleo está a punto de acabarse y que la producción de alimentos ha tocado techo. No hay recursos suficientes como para alimentar a 7.000 millones de personas. Lo sabemos porque lo dicen los mismos que ya nos avisaron de que la tierra no podría sostener a 5.000 millones de personas.
Keynes became the most famous economist of the 20th century and the guru-crank whose work has inspired thousands of failed economic experiments and continues to inspire them today. He is the Svengali-like figure who implausibly convinced the world that saving is bad, inflation cures unemployment, investment can and should be socialized, consumers are fools whose interests should be dismissed, and capital can be made non-scarce by driving interest rates to zero – thereby turning the hard work of many hundreds of years by economists on its head.
Keynes had every privilege in life, and all the power and influence that an intellectual could have, and he used it all irresponsibly in service to the State.
Hazlitt was very nearly his foil. He did not come from privilege, did not enjoy a prestigious educational pedigree, and did not know any of the right people. He came from nowhere and worked his way up through sheer force of intellectual labor and moral determination.
En su artículo de enero en laNew English ReviewTheodore Dalrymple se pregunta si es posible pesar, medir y comparar el mal realizado. ¿Es peor Mao llevando a la muerte por inanición a 45 millones de compatriotas o Ian Huntley, que viola y mata a dos niñas de 12 años?
