How Piketty's Bombshell Book Blows Up Libertarian Fantasies

Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:43:44 +1000

Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>

Andrew Pam
<http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-pikettys-bombshell-book-blows-libertarian-fantasies>

"Sorry, Ayn Rand. Your fiction has been exposed as, well, fiction."

“A society that puts equality—in the sense of equality of outcome—ahead of
freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.… On the other hand, a
society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both
greater freedom and greater equality.”

Well, that turns out to be spectacularly, jaw-droppingly, head-scratchingly
wrong.

Via Colin Mackay.

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