Reminds me of papers like "Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation?" where people who study mainstream econ are observed to start acting more like self-interested "homo economicus." After all, right-wing libertarians align themselves with a pure form of capitalism. <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/economics_frank/frank.html>
I asked a well-known science prof why right-wing libertarians are unusually represented in the tech world. He opined that many bright, upwardly mobile students didn't see why they should care about others.
They certainly have their good points. They tend to argue on a more rational basis than many others. On the downside, they're axiomatic rather than empirical thinkers. They seem to take much of mainstream neoclassical econ as almost axiomatically true, alone among social sciences.
This axiomatic thinking seems to make them a little loose with the truth. Even a left-wing anarchist will admit that the state drove stuff like fundamental innovations. But libertarians typically claim entrepreneurship did.
But hey, many of them certainly like hearing about anti-state lit, like Tilly's "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime." <https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/rohloff/www/war%20making%20and%20state%20making.pdf>
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-- When dealing with political problems, some instinctively reach for more democracy; others for more capitalism...