Word: libertarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deft hand on the economic system but never so heavily as to interfere with the basic logic of the marketplace. As for politics, Mayer says irritably, "I could not care less whether the government calls itself conservative or liberal or radical, Democratic, Republican, American, Socialist, Worker or Libertarian. If we can get the substance right, I can put up with almost any style." In a period of muddled political impulses, Mayer is a valuable man to listen to-a clear-eyed, irascible independent. Lance Morrow
...week's end Hereford had still not taken any action, apparently hoping that the Farmington board of directors, scheduled to meet Feb. 9, would reject the vote. Until then, he may well ponder how Founder Jefferson, who was both a libertarian and a slaveholder, would have solved his dilemma...
Revel feels that Socialists err in dismissing Western-style social democracy as a "class collaboration" that defuses the proletariat. Focusing on class struggle, he argues, serves "less to transform the condition of the working class than to prevent capitalism from functioning." For his part, Revel prefers the libertarian inequalities of modern capitalism to "an inequality in penury under the control of a dictatorship...
...Irving Kristol and Aristotle, you're probably both." But he admits to being a conservative, with some qualification. "That's a somewhat richer and more complicated tradition than some conservatives. I'm not a Lockean. I'm more a Burkean," he says, distinguishing himself from other more libertarian conservatives like Barry Goldwater and Milton Friedman. Of the former, he observes, "He's a philosophic radical. He is, as Hayek is, a classic Whig or liberal. Goldwater is the most optimistic American. He believes that he knows how to produce a kind of frictionless, progressive society. He's as American...
Karl E. Case, head tutor in Economics and a section instructor for the course, said yesterday that although Harvard students are more conservative than in past years, libertarian theory stillmight not command enough student interest to produce changes in the course...