{"id":27756,"date":"2015-08-13T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27756"},"modified":"2015-08-06T23:41:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T03:41:45","slug":"qotd-libertarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/08\/13\/qotd-libertarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Libertarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Libertarianism is not the claim that individuals are always rational, or that markets are always efficient, or that the distribution of income under <em>laissez-faire<\/em> capitalism is always \u201cfair.\u201d Rather, it is the claim that, despite the imperfections of private arrangements, government interventions usually make things worse. Thus, non-intervention is the better policy.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Miron, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jul\/17\/miron-a-case-for-the-libertarian\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A case for the libertarian: Neither liberals nor conservatives recognize their inconsistencies&#8221;, <em>Washington Times<\/em><\/a>, 2014-07-17.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libertarianism is not the claim that individuals are always rational, or that markets are always efficient, or that the distribution of income under laissez-faire capitalism is always \u201cfair.\u201d Rather, it is the claim that, despite the imperfections of private arrangements, government interventions usually make things worse. Thus, non-intervention is the better policy. Jeffrey Miron, &#8220;A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,10,41],"tags":[550],"class_list":["post-27756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-liberty","category-quotations","tag-libertarianism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7dG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27757,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27756\/revisions\/27757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}