PolicyGuy

Thursday, July 29, 2004


Why Defending Simple Economics is So Difficult.
Outsourcing is the latest evil calling for government action.

The excellent blog Out of Control reminds us of the reason that fearmongering over outsourcing has as much political power as it has: "Outsourcing’s benefactors rarely know who they are, but its victims are plain to see."

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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