T.Žuko blogas

The Becker & Posner Blog:
Is the Conservative Movement Losing Steam? Richard Posner
The Serious Conflict in the Modern Conservative Movement. Gary Becker

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WORLD VIEW: Fareed Zakaria

The End of Conservatism
Conservative slogans sound anachronistic in the context of today’s problems, like an old TV show from the 1970s.
From the magazine issue dated Feb 25, 2008 / NEWSWEEK

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Op-Ed Columnist
The Republican Collapse
by DAVID BROOKS

Published: October 5, 2007 NYT

Modern conservatism begins with Edmund Burke. What Burke articulated was not an ideology or a creed, but a disposition, a reverence for tradition, a suspicion of radical change. …>>

Supercapitalism
The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
Written by Robert B. Reich

Business & Economics – Labor; Political Science – Democracy; Business & Economics – Government & Business
Hardcover September 2007 $25.00 978-0-307-26561-6 (0-307-26561-7)
Alfred A. Knopf Publ.

From the greatly admired author of The Work of Nations and The Future of Success, one of America’s greatest economic and political thinkers as well as a distinguished public servant in three national administrations, a breakthrough book on the clash between capitalism and democracy. …>>

Šiandien ”Amazon” man, kaip M.Friedmano “Capitalism and Freedom” skaitytojui, atsiuntė – manau, kad labai sveiką (ir C.Sunsteino teorijų prasme) - rekomendaciją “apsižvalgyt”. Dalinuos:

The Myth of the Free Market
The Role of the State in a Capitalist Economy

Mark A. Martinez / 336 pp., 6″ x 9″, figures, March 2009 / Published by Kumarian Press

Teisininkams, ypač konstitucionalistams, prof. R.Epsteino pristatinėt nereik. Kitiems žr. čia. Vienas garsiausių JAV konstitucionalistų ir teisininkų apskritai. Turbūt nesuklysiu pasakęs, kad jis yra vienas intelektualiai įspūdingiausių JAV libertarų, bent jau man tai tikrai. Kai kas net vadina jį taip: “The libertarian”.

The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
April 03, 2009 Video: Crisis and the Law with Richard Epstein

Over the past week, the National Review Online has been posting portions of a video interview with Richard Epstein as part of “Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson,” produced by the Hoover Institution. Links to the week’s episodes are below. …>>

Kalbėdamas apie Obamą, be visos (dėmesio vertos) kritikos, daug jo (dėmėsio vertų) gerų ypatybių nurodė. Epsteinas Obamą senokai pažįsta. Viena įdomesnių man, paties Epsteino žodžiais: “This guy is totally in control of himself.”

How to transform Russia into a market economy? M Friedman v J Stiglitz

None other than Milton Friedman, the founding father of the
free-market era, told me in an interview before he died that Stiglitz
also had been more correct than everyone else about how to transform
Russia into a market economy when he argued that institution-building
and creating regulatory authorities were an important preliminary
step. “In the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, I
kept being asked what the Russians should do,” Friedman told me in
2002. “I said, ‘Privatize, privatize, privatize. I was wrong. Joe was
right. What we want is privatization, and the rule of law.”

Source: Newsweek / THE WORLD FROM WASHINGTON. Michael
Hirsh: Chasing Stiglitz. Obama’s economic team is missing the one guy
who’s been right all along, Dec 4, 2008

Truputėlis – kaip niekad (o gal visgi ”kaip visad”) svarbios – istorijos:

“We Are All Keynesians Now”
Friday, Dec. 31, 1965 / TIME

Letters 
Friedman & Keynes

Sir: You quote me [Dec. 31] as saying: “We are all Keynesians now.”
The quotation is correct, but taken out of context. As best I can
recall it, the context was: “In one sense, we are all Keynesians now;
in another, nobody is any longer a Keynesian.” The second half is at
least as important as the first.

MILTON FRIEDMAN
The University of Chicago
Chicago