Angus Burgin
Auteur van The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression
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The key figures here are Friedrich Hayek, who founded the Mont Pèlerin Society in 1947, and Milton Friedman, who succeeded Hayek as the most influential advocate of the market mechanism. Both rejected the label ‘conservative,’ but Hayek comes off as much less doctrinaire and presumptuous in his postulates than Friedman. Friedman's great talent was for popularizing the notion than 'freedom' is essentially economic―but, given the nature of political discourse, popular ideas are inevitably simplistic ones.
Burgin mostly confines his discussion to the debate among supporters of the market system. In so doing, he exposes the range of arguments in favor of markets, and he allows the paradoxical, contradictory features of the ‘capitalist doctrine of freedom’ to reveal themselves.… (meer)