{"id":13249,"date":"2011-05-11T04:37:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T11:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13249"},"modified":"2011-05-05T04:40:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T11:40:10","slug":"quote-when-x-and-y-always-turn-out-to-be-mutually-recognizable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13249","title":{"rendered":"Quote: When X and Y Always Turn Out To Be Mutually Recognizable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Matt over at <a href=\"http:\/\/bleedingheartlibertarians.com\/2011\/03\/on-bleeding-hearts-and-crocodile-tears\/\">Bleeding Heart Libertarians<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Carden claims to be motivated by a concern for the poor.  His commitment to free market, his post suggests, is a product of his belief that free markets serve the interests of the poor better than alternative institutions.  But his commitment to the free market does not seem at all qualified.  He does not say that free markets do, in certain contexts, a pretty good job of promoting the interests of the poor, but perhaps they are limited in such and such ways.  He does not present any cases where deviations from the free market might be necessary to promote the interests of the poor.  He does not even say that the interests of the poor would be better served by government intervention, but that considerations of aggregate well-being or deontological constraints prevent us from purusing those polciies.  The message seems to be that if your concern is to help the poor, free markets are always the best answer.<\/p>\n<p>Now, maybe he&#8217;s right.  I don&#8217;t think he is, but perhaps I&#8217;m under the sway of false economic beliefs.  Still, it all seems a little too neat.  When someone claims to be committed in a fundamental way to both X and Y, and then claims that (happy day!) X and Y always turn out to be mutually recognizable, I begin to suspect that the conclusion is driven more by psychological processes designed to reduce cognitive dissonance than by careful empirical study or theoretical reasoning.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Matt over at Bleeding Heart Libertarians: Carden claims to be motivated by a concern for the poor. His commitment to free market, his post suggests, is a product of his belief that free markets serve the interests of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13249\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-and-the-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13250,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13249\/revisions\/13250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}