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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Hayek and Hormuz by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. I can grant much of what you’re saying but still see a problem for the Hayekian thesis. One problem is that there is an unresolved ambiguity there. On the one hand, Hayek wants to say that pricing is a “discove…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Hayek and Hormuz by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Joseph S. Biehl. Attack of the Biehlosopher! My point isn’t that we should establish socialism or that the price system is a bad thing, but that Hayek’s argument is both a little over-hyped and a little unclear. There’s a …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Hayek and Hormuz by Joseph S. Biehl
Everything that Roderick said, and to simply add that Hayek’s argument is that this imperfect process is far superior to the entirely centrally planned alternative. Hence the joke that if there ever were a global communist revolution, it would b…
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