As I stated in “Some Stiglitz Stunners,” which I posted yesterday, I didn’t have time to respond to all of the errors and misleading comments in the four quotes from Stiglitz.
I suspect Joe knew about mutual aid societies. As I wrote earlier, his parents were FDR democrats. I clearly remember sitting at dinner with his parents Nat and Charlotte and my first wife's parents. The discussion turned to the depression. I suggested FDR and the New Deal were partly responsible for it's protracted misery. Their faces became red...no pun here... and they lauded FDR and his policies as if he were the second iteration of Lincoln. Joe grew up hearing this and he believed it.
Beito's book is really great, and should be on the reading list of anyone interested in social services, whether provided by government, markets or civil society. I appreciate you noting it here!
It was a real eye-opener for me (IANAE), to find how much more they were than just funny hats and secret handshakes, and to find how much the AMA (or the equivalent at the time) did to undermine them with occupational licensing.
Yea, the way that government and the medical profession teamed up to basically say "It's nice that this is working so well, but we'd like to make money without the competition, thanks" and put the mutual aid societies under via regulation ought to give people pause, on both sides of the aisle.
I suspect Joe knew about mutual aid societies. As I wrote earlier, his parents were FDR democrats. I clearly remember sitting at dinner with his parents Nat and Charlotte and my first wife's parents. The discussion turned to the depression. I suggested FDR and the New Deal were partly responsible for it's protracted misery. Their faces became red...no pun here... and they lauded FDR and his policies as if he were the second iteration of Lincoln. Joe grew up hearing this and he believed it.
Interesting. I don't see, though, how this would be evidence that he knew about mutual aid societies.
I said I suspect he might have known as he thought government was more compassionate than private citizens when offering charity.
Beito's book is really great, and should be on the reading list of anyone interested in social services, whether provided by government, markets or civil society. I appreciate you noting it here!
It was a real eye-opener for me (IANAE), to find how much more they were than just funny hats and secret handshakes, and to find how much the AMA (or the equivalent at the time) did to undermine them with occupational licensing.
Yea, the way that government and the medical profession teamed up to basically say "It's nice that this is working so well, but we'd like to make money without the competition, thanks" and put the mutual aid societies under via regulation ought to give people pause, on both sides of the aisle.
In your review of Friedman’s book for Hoover, the font size suddenly changes and then changes back.
Yes. It's ugly. I'm just glad that Hoover kept the pieces after shutting down the publication. I had to search hard to find it.