![]() ![]() Why do I find this so striking? Two reasons. In the view of all three, this was a nice summation of their message. ![]() ![]() On the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. ![]() In the 15 minutes or less that we devoted to the chapter on equality, three out of six students zeroed in on this passage from Chapter 5:Ī society that puts equality–in the sense of equality of outcome–ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. We did them in reverse order and so didn’t cover Chapter 5 on equality as thoroughly as any of us probably would have liked.īut here’s what I found interesting. They are “Created Equal” and “What’s Wrong with Our Schools.” As supplementary readings, we covered Murray Rothbard, “Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature” (for Chapter 5) and Armen Alchian, “The Economic and Social Impact of Free Tuition” (for Chapter 6). Good news: they decided over drinks afterwards that they want to continue the meetings informally next quarter and one of them suggested calling it “The Dead Economists Society.”įor our last readings, we covered Chapters 5 and 6 in Milton and Rose Friedman’s Free to Choose. Last week my group of students who work their way through readings had our last formal meeting. ![]()
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