From Paul Krugman ‘Depression Economics’:
The truth is that good old fashioned demand side macroeconomics has a lot to offer in our current predicament — but its defenders lack all conviction, whilst its critics are filled with a passionate intensity.
Not so this defender.
But he’s right — the Left has to argue with the passionate intensity of the Right.
I know we haven’t, for the good and simple reason that our case is proven by the fact that the arguments are rational and the evidence shows them to work in practice. But that doesn’t mean we can afford to ignore those who would oppose the justice they promote with a wholly unjustified passion.
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“I know we haven’t, for the good and simple reason that our case is proven by the fact that the arguments are rational and the evidence shows them to work in practice.”
More of the arrogant, hubristic nonsense we have come to expect from you, Richard. Left-wing thinking has always and everywhere failed completely because it fundamentally misunderstand human nature and attemps to impose it upon others. That is the reason why the Left have been out of power for so long in the UK, and why they will continue to be out of power in the future.
Odd Peter
If you read modern decision theory and what underpins it it is quite cl;ear that Enlightenment rational man is the falsehood – and left morality is the natural order
Rationality is imposed justificiation for action, not the cource of it
So I’d suggest you;re wrong (as ever)
Richard
Ah yes wasn’t the enlightenment a disaster. We need a return to compulsory church attendance, and the divine right of kings. Ask the elite- they’ll tell you
“Rationality is imposed justificiation for action, not the cource of it”
May I say this is one of the most profound and interesting statements I have read recently. In a sporky sort of instinctiviational way it puts the meta into metaphysics.