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Originally Posted by GGG
Sign me up, it’s Locke’s dream of a society run by accountants.
How terrible a society run by experts.
Also funny is that the author of that article says he follows Marx but instead of taking away capitalism he works within capitalism. Ahhh so not a Marxist.
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Doing a lot of reading on him, going to grab his book in the next day or two, listening to his Reith lectures right now, and he brings up Adam Smith or Freidrich Hayak as much as Marx. Honestly I am a little confused by him because by all accounts his affinity for market forces places him in the neoliberal camp of economics - but his restraint and actions with the BoC, and then his more recent talks seem to point to a softer idea of the market as a tool of society and not a definer of society. Which is definitely leans more left.
So far he is seeming like someone who understands that we work in a capitalist society and how market money works, but who also tempers that with the idea that it is human values that should define us. I don't know how better to define a centrist economist - but I am leaving that open until I learn more.