which one of you have heard of the Mont Perelin Society?
WSJ artcilce about the society. What kills me is that even given my economics background, I have never heard of it. And I think a passage from it sums up the reason why so many republicans are so frustrated with the outcome of the current election - that their point of view seems to be self-evident truth, and yet they cannot make a dent in the other half of the population's thinking.
"Hayek at the end of his life was still puzzled at the fact that a truth so evident as the virtues of the free market should have had such little permanent effect on public opinion. He toyed with the idea that humanity must be in the grip of an evolutionary passion for the intimacies of tribal societies. He never understood, I suspect, the power exerted over us by the ideal of social justice, even in our free societies"
"Hayek at the end of his life was still puzzled at the fact that a truth so evident as the virtues of the free market should have had such little permanent effect on public opinion. He toyed with the idea that humanity must be in the grip of an evolutionary passion for the intimacies of tribal societies. He never understood, I suspect, the power exerted over us by the ideal of social justice, even in our free societies"