Subject: (OT) Myth of Efficient Government Service Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:27:47 -0500 To: From: Bob Armstrong In threads here between myself defending my strong libertarian belief in individual freedom not just for non-aggressive personal behaviors which I may or may not find stupid or disgusting but also individual economic freedom and those here believing in the possibility of a superior political class , I have sometimes truncated the thread simply citing the enormous and rapidly growing literature of freedom available on the web= . In a CSPAN airing of a CATO discussion of a couple of new books about Friedrich Hayak today , Dick Armey made the memorable comment that socialist thought is shallow and arrogant as opposed to capitalist ( market ) which is deep and humble . Below is a link to a significant paper by one of those deep humble thinkers : >=A0http://www.liberty-news.com/showNewsletter.php?id=3D200403211&src= =3Dtyg2425 >=A0The Myth of Efficient Government Service >=A0by Murray N. Rothbard > >=A0[This excerpt from Man, Economy, and State, with Power and= Market (Mises >=A0Institute, 2004), posted March 18, 2004, is an explanation and >=A0elaboration of points first made in Mises's Bureaucracy=97and= provides an >=A0excellent example of how Murray Rothbard's treatise built on= Mises's to >=A0employ and extend the core analytical framework. The footnotes= have been >=A0shortened. The excerpt is from pages 1260-1272] -- >=A0The well-known inefficiencies of government operation are not= empirical >=A0accidents, resulting perhaps from the lack of a civil-service= tradition. >=A0They are inherent in all government enterprise, and the= excessive demand >=A0fomented by free and other underpriced services is just one of= the many >=A0reasons for this condition. .... Source: http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?control=3D1471 --- Original Message --- From: "Marc Brands Liberty" To: =A0 Sent: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:11:39 -0500 Subject: [LPNY DISCUSS] Liberty: -- Analysis -- The Myth of= Efficient Government Service --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Libertarian Presidential Candidates =A0:= http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm Restore our Right to Relax : =A0http://ny.lp.org/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?Against_the_Smoking_Ban =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02004/03/21 4:51:56 PM