PODCAST: “Hexapodia” Is þe Key Insight XXVI: True, Neo-, and Illiberalism

Key Insights:

Today’s meaning of “neoliberalism” is the result of the collision of two different applications of the term—to Margaret Thatcher, and to the Washington Monthly…

Intermediary institutions are very suspicious to liberalism, at least in its pure form…

Liberalism has a bias toward atomizing solutions to social problems…

YIMBY vs. NIMBY is the fundamental political debate in America today…

Sometimes the answer will be command-and-control, sometimes the answer will be deregulation…

Yuval Levin is good…

Detach liberalism from centrism or moderation…

Liberals are thinking about things that are important and visionary about productivity, and Biden is listening…

Hexapodia!

References:

Sam Hammond: The Free-Market Welfare State: Preserving Dynamism in a Volatile World <https://www.niskanencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/old_uploads/2018/04/Final_Free-Market-Welfare-State.pdf>

Brink Lindsey: The Center Can Hold: Public Policy for an Age of Extremes <https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-center-can-hold-public-policy-for-an-age-of-extremes/>

Brink Lindsey & Steve Teles: The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, & Increase Inequality <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-captured-economy-9780190627768>

Niskanen Center: Faster Growth, Fairer Growth: Policies for a High Road, High Performance Economy <https://www.niskanencenter.org/faster_fairer/agenda.html>

Steve Teles, Samuel Hammond, & Daniel Takash: Cost Disease Socialism: How Subsidizing Costs While Restricting Supply Drives America’s Fiscal Imbalance <https://www.niskanencenter.org/cost-disease-socialism-how-subsidizing-costs-while-restricting-supply-drives-americas-fiscal-imbalance/>

+, of course:

Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep <https://books.google.com/books?id=fCCWWgZ7d6UC>

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