PODCAST: “Hexapodia” Is þe Key Insight XXVI: True, Neo-, and Illiberalism

"Hexapodia" Is the Key Insight: by Noah Smith & Brad DeLong

Key Insights:

* Today’s meaning of “neoliberalism” is the result of the collision of two different applications of the term—to Margaret Thatcher, and to the Washington Monthly…

* Intermediary institutions are very suspicious to liberalism, at least in its pure form…

* Liberalism has a bias toward atomizing solutions to social problems…

* YIMBY vs. NIMBY is the fundamental political debate in America today…

* Sometimes the answer will be command-and-control, sometimes the answer will be deregulation…

* Yuval Levin is good…

* Detach liberalism from centrism or moderation…

* Liberals are thinking about things that are important and visionary about productivity, and Biden is listening…

* Hexapodia!

References:

* Sam Hammond: The Free-Market Welfare State: Preserving Dynamism in a Volatile World <https://www.niskanencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/old_uploads/2018/04/Final_Free-Market-Welfare-State.pdf>

* Brink Lindsey: The Center Can Hold: Public Policy for an Age of Extremes <https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-center-can-hold-public-policy-for-an-age-of-extremes/>

* Brink Lindsey & Steve Teles: The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, & Increase Inequality <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-captured-economy-9780190627768>

* Niskanen Center: Faster Growth, Fairer Growth: Policies for a High Road, High Performance Economy <https://www.niskanencenter.org/faster_fairer/agenda.html>

* Steve Teles, Samuel Hammond, & Daniel Takash: Cost Disease Socialism: How Subsidizing Costs While Restricting Supply Drives America’s Fiscal Imbalance <https://www.niskanencenter.org/cost-disease-socialism-how-subsidizing-costs-while-restricting-supply-drives-americas-fiscal-imbalance/>

+, of course:

* Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep <https://books.google.com/books?id=fCCWWgZ7d6UC>

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