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Showing posts with label Bertrand de Jouvenal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bertrand de Jouvenal. Show all posts
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Hudson Valley Focus Interview Re Agenda 21

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Tom Sipos interviewed me on Hudson Valley Focus concerning the Town of Olive's adoption of an Agenda 21-driven master plan.  Hudson Vall...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

RLC Has a Mission

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I just submitted the following to the Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC) blog. RLC Has a Mission In his historical tour de force, On Power ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Why Government Is Incompetent: Fausta on The Obamanable Health Care Plan

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In Roman history Fausta was the wife of Emperor Constantine, the first Christian Emperor. Constantine had Fausta executed by putting her in...
Friday, June 26, 2009

Progressivism and the Roman Model

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Progressivism, the paradigm for what later came to be called state-activist liberalism, was a variant of a twenty-centuries old model of eco...
Friday, June 12, 2009

De Jouvenal on the Investment Banker Bailout-Socialism of Bush and Obama

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"It is far from being the case that these new aristocrats show all the characteristics of the old, or even of those who have climbed th...
Monday, June 8, 2009

De Jouvenal on State Sovereignty

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Decentralization is a managerial tool that has proven to be essential to conglomerates and other large organizations. With respect to politi...
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Sunday, June 7, 2009

De Jouvenal on the French and English Revolutions -- And Progressivism

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De Juvenal uses the word "Power" to refer to centralized authority. In the Middle Ages it was the king. From On Power , p. 267: ...

Robespierre on Progressivism and the Living Constitution

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"what do we care for devices devised to balance the authority of tyrants? It is tyranny that must be extirpated: the aim of the people ...
Thursday, June 4, 2009

How Universities Systemically Expand State Power

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Bertrand de Jouvenal's argument concerning the relentless expansion of the state since the Middle Ages is based on the unfolding of mona...

De Jouvenal on the Public Loss Function

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The notion of a loss function is the basis of total quality management. Quality losses appear when the realization of an output deviates fro...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Bertrand De Jouvenal on the Equivalence of Progressivism and Corporate Conservatism

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"Every association of men shows us the same spectacle. When once the social end ceases to be continuously pursued in common (as happens...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Bertrand de Jouvenal on the Divorce Between Socialism in Theory and in Practice

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"Once it is admitted that Power may forswear its true reason and end, and as it were, detach itself from society to form far above it a...
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Friday, February 13, 2009

Bertrand de Jouvenal on the Failure of American Scholarship

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"A large part of the Western intellligentsia of today forms and conveys a warped picture of our economic institutions. This is dangerou...