Is Newspeak just a piece of the dystopia imagined by Orwell, or is it a realistic representation of a typical ambition of political power, connected with the will to influence…
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The case for liberalism: Pervasive market failure in the economy and the polity
WP 2023-02. Executive Summary We argue to look at the polity with the very same vista with which modern economics looks at markets, as the polity is nothing but the…
Since the French revolution, the distinction between left and right organizes the political universe into opposing camps. When the States General met on May 5, 1789, the nobility took the…
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In next year’s presidential elections, voters will choose between statism of the left and statism of the right.
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This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal
In next year’s French presidential elections, it seems increasingly likely that voters will be asked to choose between two types of statism: statism of the left and statism of the right. Over the weekend François Hollande won the final round of the Socialist Party primaries, handily besting party leader Martine Aubry, and is now set to face off against France’s ostensibly center-right president, Nicolas Sarkozy.
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