1. Shermer's 'Mind of the Market' Reviewed in L.A. Times

Comment #117771 by King Boogey on January 29, 2008 at 3:11 pm

It's amazing just how smug socialists are. They don't seem to realize that what we have in America is NOT a free market, but an economic oligarchy. Corporatists get involved in government, & thereby pull the strings, thus our economy is really a controlled one since it's moved by the coercive forces of government, & not by the invisible hand of the market. As well, the "Robber Barons" of 19th Century America acquired their power via government manipulation.

Something else which surprises me is how easily self-proclaimed skeptics accept the broken logic of Statism. Because humans are flawed, we must, according to Statist thought, use human institutions to tame humans.

Socialists should really read up on their economics before they off-handedly reject Libertarianism.