Claire Wolfe: The Quality of a Free Man (cited by Rational Review News Digest)
James Leroy Wilson says some things that I have attempted to say about, for example, highways:
Perhaps a genuinely free market would have seen the development of organic economies driven by local production and less on mass production and trade. People might have less of what they didn’t need anyway, and lead quiet, simple, but happy and stress-free lives. Or perhaps the free market would have taken us to unimagined technological heights and a prosperous and peaceful planetary economy.
I find both possibilities appealing. And that is why, ultimately, I can’t advance a libertarian worldview that exalts one vision over the other . . . .
Leftovers from September: Trapped in New Orleans: First By the Floods, Then By Martial Law