Brink Lindsey: belief

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…Let’s take the notion of liberaltarianism, which you’ve been one of the leading thinkers and writers behind. It’s just a blend of what you might call modern liberal views and libertarian views but you put them together, it’s called liberaltarianism. If we decided that regulatory reform were simply impossible, maybe a good wonderful idea, but there is simply too many regulations and there was no mechanism we had access to that could get rid of them all in a way that would really cut down on the stock, would liberaltarianism then simply collapse into mainstream liberalism, or is it still something quite different and distinct? I think it still could collapse. Excuse me, I think it still could survive. Maybe, alright. The way I think of the liberaltarian idea, especially for those of us who come to it as former libertarians or as quasi-Libertarians, as opposed to Steve who came from another direction. But from my own perspective, I still retain the lively libertarian sense of how government can go wrong. And so I am alert to more so than the typical liberal issues of agency capture and corruption of policy, also to unintended consequences and particularly interaction effects that produce Kludgeocracy. I think a general concern with hygiene of the liberal state, and a sense that things are not all well, and that things get rotten very quickly, and unless you try very hard to push back, things get rotten very badly. That would be a distinctive liberaltarian attitude, even if we didn’t talk about regulation. Are you up for a bout of overrated versus underrated?…

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