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Students: Get a full week of this at an IHS Summer Seminar - http://lrnlbty.co/AC0k2g
Prof. Art Carden responds to "The Story of Broke" (h...
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Students: Get a full week of this at an IHS Summer Seminar - http://lrnlbty.co/AC0k2g
Prof. Art Carden responds to "The Story of Broke" (http://bit.ly/LLStoryOfBroke), a recent video by the creators of "The Story of Stuff." In "The Story of Broke," Annie Leonard claims that the government isn't actually broke. Rather, the government just wastes resources on the wrong things like subsidies to the dinosaur economy and war. She claims that the government should change its ways, and instead, subsidize firms that will bring us the future we really want.
Art Carden agrees with Leonard that war and subsidies are wasteful, but is skeptical of notion that there is one unified vision for the future. To Carden, everyone has a different vision for the future. Our path to the future, he argues, is determined by the interactions of billions of unique individuals pursuing their own objectives.
Additionally, Carden questions Leonard's distinction between bad subsidies and good subsidies. Every subsidy, deemed good or bad, must be allocated through the political process. Lobbyists and special interests exert a large degree of influence on political decisions, and they use this power to direct subsidies in their own favor at everyone else's expense.
Carden concludes that government spending won't buy a brighter future. A brighter future will emerge when people are allowed to spend money on things they care about. Put another way, positive change will come from billions of people cooperating freely and voluntarily with one another, not from pushing trillions of dollars through a broken political process.
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Students: Hear Bryan Caplan live at the Scholarship and a Free Society Seminar this summer - http://lrnlbty.co/wz3Ao9
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Students: Hear Bryan Caplan live at the Scholarship and a Free Society Seminar this summer - http://lrnlbty.co/wz3Ao9
Prof. Bryan Caplan discusses his controversial book, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. His thesis is that a majority of voters err in their thinking on economics issues, and that these errors can be grouped under 4 different irrational biases, which Caplan calls the make-work bias, the anti-foreign bias, the pessimistic bias, and the anti-market bias. These errors make it difficult to enact effective policies through the democratic process. Caplan's argument responds to the claim in conventional public choice theory that voters are rationally ignorant, as well as to critics of that theory.
Credits: This lecture was delivered in 2009 at the Metropolitan State College of Denver School of Business, as part of the Exploring Economic Freedom Lecture Series, directed by Prof. Alexandre Padilla. This video was produced and directed by Scott Houck, and edited by Adrienne Christy. Video production provided by the Educational Technology Center at Metro State State College of Denver. Video used by LearnLiberty.org with permission.
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You call me a "devil-worshipping atheist."
That is a contradiction all in itself.
Atheist = without religion. D:<
I have a religion, prick.
Just not yours. :D