Friday, June 04, 2004
Democracy may not be business but what is it? According to the new courtiers Government is not even planning anymore - see below Maybe noone in canberra believes anything anymore? partly explains the left-right march on both sides?
Chandran Kukathas CIS lecture this week
"The folly of central planning, in the end, Hayek tried to show, was not simply that it spelt economic disaster but that it corrupted the body politic. The danger was not economic planning as such but the planning mentality. Today, the ideal of economic planning, if not quite dead, is a limping dinosaur. But central planning itself is alive and well, and its corrupting effects are everywhere to be found, though they are seldom noticed. Hayek, more than anyone, can still help us see this"
Chandran Kukathas CIS lecture this week
"The folly of central planning, in the end, Hayek tried to show, was not simply that it spelt economic disaster but that it corrupted the body politic. The danger was not economic planning as such but the planning mentality. Today, the ideal of economic planning, if not quite dead, is a limping dinosaur. But central planning itself is alive and well, and its corrupting effects are everywhere to be found, though they are seldom noticed. Hayek, more than anyone, can still help us see this"
