I guess I am, according to the braniacs at Harvard Law School! They are having a conference that is obviously designed as anti-capitalist propaganda disguised as science. Daniel J. Mitchell at The Cato Institute reports:
***"I don’t know whether this belongs in the comic-relief category or the future-threats category, but the Harvard Law School is having a conference to analyze the “free market mindset.” The basic premise of the conference seems to be that people who believe in limited government are psychologically troubled.
The conference schedule features presentations such as “How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community” and “Addicted to Incentives: How the Ideology of Self Interest Can Be Self-Fulfilling.” The most absurd presentation, though, may be the one entitled, “Colossal Failure: The Output Bias of Market Economies.” According to the description, the author argues that the market “delivers excessive levels of consumption.” Damn those entrepreneurs for creating so much wealth!
In the good old days of Soviet dictatorship, the regime classified dissidents as being mentally ill (after all, only a nutcase would fail to see the glories of communism)." ***
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Also check out the conference materials, which is a collection of biased and intentionally confusing pseudo-scientific gobbledegook. No doubt this conference is designed to be used by leftist policy makers to discredit economic freedom and make the case for a self anointed elite to run the lives of the ignorant masses. This story is as old as mankind. A ruling class convinces itself of its unique intelligence and virtue in order to assert a divine right to shape society to their liking.
Who's really crazy here? Are they saying that the economic philosophy that has created the wealthiest society in human history is really a mental disorder? And that the hundreds of tyrannical, centrally planned failures are sane and should be emulated?
Yeah. That's it. Put Milton Friedman, F.A Hayek, Adam Smith and Ayn Rand on the couch. Karl Marx is the guy who really had it together.
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