Re:Blame Economists for the Mess We’re In
by gnusty_gnurc on Sunday August 25, 2019 @09:50AM
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He was an economist during an era where progressivism explosively grew the administrative state and really didn't have any checks. They were enabled by war.
What you're talking about was one of his biggest regrets.
> "It never occurred to me at the time that I was helping to develop machinery that would make possible a government that I would come to criticize severely as too large, too intrusive, too destructive of freedom. Yet, that is precisely what I was doing. [My wife] Rose has repeatedly chided me over the years about the role that I played in making possible the current overgrown government we both criticize so strongly."
What you're talking about was one of his biggest regrets.
> "It never occurred to me at the time that I was helping to develop machinery that would make possible a government that I would come to criticize severely as too large, too intrusive, too destructive of freedom. Yet, that is precisely what I was doing. [My wife] Rose has repeatedly chided me over the years about the role that I played in making possible the current overgrown government we both criticize so strongly."
[1] : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/nov/16/post65...