[lbo-talk] neocon economists

[Ian Murray]

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From: "Marta Russell" <ap888 at lafn.org>
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Subject: [lbo-talk] neocon economists


> So we've covered the neocon politicos and philosophers, who are the
> economists in tow?
> marta

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Some of their flacks hang out here:

http://www.aei.org/

http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/

http://www.heritage.org/

Many neocons have a soft spot for Schumpeter, Friedman, James Buchanan,
Thomas Sowell, George Gilder [not really and economist] and Mancur Olson.
All of these economists, following James Madison and his experience of
watching the Virginia legislature, abhorred what came to be known as rent
seeking behavior [Schumpeter may have been the most tolerant/understanding
of the lot]; but it seems the Republican Party has gone dialectical on a
free market nono and turned it into a full time strategy for channeling
taxpayer dollars to their districts and the corps. that send them the
checks. It's downright mercantilist in a way, which is why I think there's
something to be said for Frederic Lane's and Charles Tilly's approach to
protection rents/rackets. Alexander Hamilton would probably feel
enthralled and repulsed...............

Ian