Chris Aldrich’s Reviews > American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper > Status Update

Finished chapter 6.

Beginning and some history of Randianism...

Some interesting history of deregulation here in the Reagan+ era.

Examples and discussion of how markets can manage to fail and why we need good government to fill in the (gaping) holes.

There's also some good discussion of rent seeking behavior here too. The more I read, the more I think this should be required reading for everyone. I could see a need for taking just the first three chapters and expanding them out into their own book.

This continues to be intriguing with lots of examples. It continues to make a strong argument for a mixed economy and even bolsters with evidence that the richest countries are usually the ones with the most government--something which flies in the face of traditional Republican values.

This portends to be very interesting in that they plan to show what has changed over much of the 1900's to indicate the drastic evolution in American politics, life, and philosophy over the recent decades. Cont'd: http://boffosocko.com/2017/02/14/5-pe...