[lbo-talk] Labor Dept Economist and the Austrians

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 15 10:17:29 PDT 2005


What's striking is that if this is true, the chief economist at the Labor Department was a far-right-Austrian/Misean extremist and a government-hater of the Buchanan-McCollough public choice shool. I say this as a bit of a heretical Austrian myself -- at least as a Hayek fan, if a socialist one -- but I'm the only person even near the Austrians I know who gives a flying fuck about the workers. Tells you something, in case you needed it told, about this adminstration. The Labor Department! jks

--- Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:


> > the point, again, is that here is somebody with
> solid Republican
> > establishment credentials, who is raising
> questions about the Bush
> > administrations' version of what happened on 9-11
> ...
> >
> > This is a phenomenon known as 'breaking ranks'.
>
> It looks to me like this guy has been at it for some
> time; I don't think
> this is "news" or "breaking ranks" -- he was a Waco
> "expert" for a long
> time before this, too.
>
> His "solid Republican establishment credentials" are
> about as solid as
> Paul O'Neil's were . . .
>
>
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reynolds/reynolds-arch.html
>
> That is: he's an outsider. Read this interview . .
> .
>
> http://www.mises.org/story/1216
>
> "I went from a professor of economics, with a
> career-long specialization
> in labor, to chief economist at the Department of
> Labor. I was in this
> position for 16 months. The position came about
> because of an old
> contact. I'm glad I did it, but my experience
> confirmed everything that
> the Austrian School and the Public Choice School say
> about how
> government behaves."
>
> [ ... ]
>
> "The whole system is run from the top down, even
> more in the Bush
> administration than in others. Most policy
> initiatives come from the
> White House. For someone like me, a 3rd level
> political appointee in a
> dying department-level agency, I had no influence. I
> could not change
> anything."
>
> ----
>
> In keeping with your wish to not debate the issue
> but just the
> phenomenon, he may be right or wrong, but the
> significance of this is
> down in the noise.
>
> /jordan
>
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