Frank wrote on Dec 23
rd, 2022 at 4:38pm:
You are parroting crap again, parrot.
The usual intro to your argument; let's read on...
Quote:"The IPA supports the free market of ideas,
and in fact the free market itself....increasingly subject to failure, in the complex ecological and climate constraints facing the world today.
Quote:the free flow of capital,
from the least competitive to the most competitive.....
Quote:a limited and efficient government,
code for minimal taxation, and entrenched public sector 'austerity'.
Quote: evidence-based public policy,
Entrenched poverty and endless un-underemployment ought to be enough evidence that the current neoliberal free-market neoclassical economics doesn't work.
Quote:the rule of law, and representative democracy.
You mean....the 'Golden Rule': he who has the gold makes the rules.....
Quote:Throughout human history, these ideas have proven themselves to be the most dynamic, liberating and exciting. Our researchers apply these ideas to the public policy questions which matter today."
And as noted above, the free market is becoming increasingly dysfunctional and subject to failure; with neoclassical economics now obsolete because
scarcity is now artificial and has been replaced with achievable
surplus in our productive global AI and IT enhanced economies.
So the IPA researchers are barking up the wrong tree.
Quote:The free and open contest of ideas is an essential aspect of human dignity and well-being. The IPA stands for that.
Refuted above, the IPA stands for free markets and outsized reward for the most competitive, with the least competitive thrown onto the unemployment scrap heap.
Quote:It has no "goons", it has not censored anyone, it has not bullied anyone, not called those with different ideas "goons".
The IPA operates on
blind self-interest which enforces poverty onto the least competitive; by definition, they are goons and bullies.
Quote:Are you against
The free market of ideas
No
Quote:Free flow of capital
Yes...when it is determined by greedy private financiers.
Quote:Limited government
Yes, when it is code for minimal taxation, enforcing 'austerity' onto the public sector.
Quote:Efficient government
No; and the most efficient govt is one which can fund itself, with public policy determined by available resource allocation, not by enforced austerity.
Quote: Evidence based policy
No.
Quote:Rule of law
No.
Quote:Representative democracy.
No.
Quote:Of course you are. You are all for the goonery of Xi Who Must Be Obeyed.
Refuted above.
Whereas you won't dare debate the topic of postulated individual 'rights'.