Lou is correct..
Alfred Stephen, in _Authoritarianism in Brazil_ argues that Hayek and his neo-liberal
team, who were backed by the US, were regularly visiting the regime's
anti-communist/pro-market think tank in the late 70s to give advises to military
technocrats in charge of the neo-liberal program in Brazil.
ohh yeah right! that is what you get from libertarians.
Mine
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> Luo says that the "general desire for a better life" is enough of an incentive for
>everyone to tell the truth, even if that means making oneself work harder with fewer
>resources, or voting to disrupt your life by shutting down an inefficient enterprise
>or even a line of work (think of typesetters). i don't believe it. i think that
>common interests like that are too weak to overcome individual interests. Note that I
>am not positing some sort of a priori selfishness, but am talking about the
>historically located incentives created by planning itself. This is a wholly
>materialist approach.
>
> I disagree, too, that Hayek's approach is about the USSR. In fact, Hayek's key
>papers were written in the 30s, during the first five year plans, not during the NEP.
>Obviously the USSR was (and remains) a main testing ground for theories of planning.
>People like Harry Braverman used to point to it to show that Hayek was wrong. But the
>argument is general, and it is confirmed by all kinds of planning experiences,
>capitalist (think of the Pentagon!), monopologtsic, as well as state socialist.
>
> In a message dated Fri, 14 Jul 2000 3:11:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Louis Proyect
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ====
>
> The "incentive" is a desire to make a better life for all of society, as
> hard as that is to believe. Most human beings would prefer it that way,
> despite libertarian propaganda.
>
> The Hayekian critique revolves around the former Soviet Union, despite
> Justin's claim that it is a "general" argument. The problem is that as
> Harry pointed out there was a general disappearance of planning in the USSR
> during the time that Hayek was developing his critique.
> >>
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Mine Aysen Doyran
PhD Student
Department of Political Science
SUNY at Albany
Nelson A. Rockefeller College
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