Meltdown, New Deal or Raw Deal

Mycket bra inlägg, fantastiskt video med Glenn Beck and guest och tips från RoR:

Boktips!
http://reflexions-of-red.blogspot.com/2009/02/boktips.html

Mer lästips:

Friedrich August von Hayek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek

It was during this time that The Road to Serfdom was written. Hayek was concerned about the general view in Britain's academia that Fascism was a capitalist reaction against socialism. A chapter in the book is entitled, "The Socialist Roots of Nazism." The book was to be the popular edition of the second volume of a treatise entitled "The Abuse and Decline of Reason".[8] It was written between 1940-1943. The title was inspired by the French classical liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville's writings on the "road to servitude".[9] It was first published in Britain by Routledge in March 1944 and was quite popular, leading Hayek to call it "that unobtainable book," also due in part to wartime paper rationing.[10] The book was favorably reviewed by George Orwell among others. When it was published in the United States by the University of Chicago in September of that year, it achieved greater popularity than in Britain. The American magazine Reader's Digest also published an abridged version in April 1945, enabling The Road to Serfdom to reach a far wider audience than academics.
The libertarian economist Walter Block has observed critically that while the The Road to Serfdom makes a strong case against centrally-planned economies, it appears only lukewarm in its support of pure laissez-faire capitalism, with Hayek even going so far as to say that "probably nothing has done so much harm to the liberal cause as the wooden insistence of some liberals on certain rules of thumb, above all of the principle of laissez-faire capitalism" [11]. In the book, Hayek writes that the government has a role to play in the economy through the monetary system, work-hours regulation, social welfare, and institutions for the flow of proper information.

The Road to Serfdom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom

The Road to Serfdom
Hayek's thesis was that central economic planning will inevitably lead to governmental control of every facet of its citizen's life, and hence toward a totalitarian state. Hayek's other insightful observations: Nazism, Fascism and communism all have the same roots. In a totalitarian state, it is always the ruthless and the unsophisticated who ascend to the top. Extensive governmental control harms the society not just in delivering dismal economic results, but, more seriously, it produces a psychological change, an alteration in the character of the people.
http://www.amazon.com/Road-Serfdom-Routledge-Classics-S/dp/0415253896/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235133108&sr=1-2

The road to hell is paved with good intentions - eller?
http://intheendwerealldebt.blogspot.com/2008/11/road-to-hell-is-paved-with-good.html

Om BoJ, FED och andra onödigheter
http://intheendwerealldebt.blogspot.com/2008/11/om-boj-fed-och-andra-ondigheter.html