tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598831864333990375.post1865408959093089191..comments2023-05-08T04:01:34.561-08:00Comments on Students Who Enjoy Economic Thinking: The Spontaneous Order of MarketsAdam Levyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257124483756325652noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598831864333990375.post-57059093818013420892009-09-30T23:10:21.838-08:002009-09-30T23:10:21.838-08:00Paradoxically enough most young earth creationists...Paradoxically enough most young earth creationists and Christian fundamentalists tend to be very politically conservative and thus skeptical of government intervention in the economy.Richard Raineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00804936689427520573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6598831864333990375.post-23213076774350202012009-09-29T23:04:08.035-08:002009-09-29T23:04:08.035-08:00Richard,
I like the way you used evolution as an...Richard, <br /><br />I like the way you used evolution as an example of the market process. What a great sentence: "As a designoid system, the market, like evolution, is driven by natural forces."<br /><br />I was raised in a very religious household that denied the fact of evolution by natural selection. I was taught that all life was designed specifically by an all-powerful, all-loving creator, and that everything was 'working as intended' according to God's plan. I strongly believed that, because that's what my parents taught me. They love me (as far as I can tell) and they have no reason to lie to me about something as important as 'life, the universe, and everything'. (Apologies to Douglas Adams.)<br /><br />Then I learned about parasitic wasps. (http://www.amazon.com/Parasite-Rex-Bizarre-Dangerous-Creatures/dp/074320011X) I'll be honest with you, the whole market for central planning dropped right through the floor for me. If you don't mind me force feeding a square peg metaphor through a round hole. If you want your children to grow up to believe in Command Economies and/or Command Ecologies, then for Keynes sake keep them away from Parasitic Wasps.<br /><br />I guess by Parasitic Wasps, I mean examples of what we would consider to be markets gone wrong. For example, the scene in the "Commanding Heights" video where because of price controls a 'mess o' chickens' gets tossed into a 55 gallon drum to be drowned. Or the possibly true story of the bus factory in Soviet Russia that made buses that were then bused to another factory so they could be cut apart into scrap. (Possibly to be used to make more buses that would then be cut into scrap...)<br /><br />I'm kind of digressing a little but it makes me wonder if very religious people, specifically young earth creationists, prefer command economies and Planned Markets (if such a thing is possible) more than they do free markets.<br /><br />They love their planned ecologies!UDOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16797455822014965844noreply@blogger.com