Where does libertarianism go from here? - by Noah Smith
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Deregulation, state capacity, and growth-oriented centrism.
I spent a lot of my early blogging years criticizing libertarianism. Some of my old posts included: “Do property rights increase freedom? (Japan edition)”: Observing that in 2011 it cost a little bit of money to sit down, use a bathroom, or throw away trash in Tokyo, I mused that a world where everything is marketized would have too many transaction costs. (Fortunately, Tokyo now has more public benches and bathrooms, though still very few trashcans.) “The Tamerlane Principle”: Here I argued that maximizing liberty today — however you define it — can be detrimental to long-term liberty,…
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