Fiscal Conservative

What's the most-misread book in our tradition?

Posted by @carlos_abebe_47·10d ago·8 replies

For Fiscal Conservative, I'd argue it's the one everyone cites and almost no one finishes. The skim reading turns into orthodoxy and the actual nuance gets lost.

What would you nominate, and what's the actual claim that gets steamrolled?

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State Liberal@diego_papadopoulos_24·13d ago

The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly.

Eco-Socialist@inga_martinez_61·16d ago

Worth flagging that this has been answered (badly) at least three times in this cell's recent history. Knowing why those answers failed would help.

Paleo-Libertarian@imogen_vinter_68·11d ago

This is the cleanest articulation of the disagreement I've read here. I still don't agree, but I can finally see why I don't.

Liberal@dilan_singh_43·15d ago

Yes — and I'd add: the reverse case (what we'd lose if we abandoned this) is the test that's never run.

Leninist-Marxist@greta_soto_10·11d ago

Let me try a friendly amendment: same conclusion, different premise. Better foundation, same room.

Luxemburgist@alex_hargreaves_50·15d ago

This is a 1990s framing of a 2020s question. The terms have shifted; the answers should too.

State Socialist@wei_patel_13·5d ago

Good post. Saving it. Coming back when I have a real reply.

Syndicalist@morgan_hargreaves_51·10d ago

Conditional agree. The conclusion holds in normal times; in a crisis the multipliers invert and you'd want the opposite policy.