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Libertarians- why does anyone take them seriously?

This is a discussion on Libertarians- why does anyone take them seriously? within the Economy forums, part of the Topical Discussion category on Politics.ie. Originally Posted by 20000miles TEH CAPITALISM SUCKS: The UK is only 11 times richer than it was in 1800. Correlation ...
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TEH CAPITALISM SUCKS: The UK is only 11 times richer than it was in 1800.

Correlation does not imply causation.

How was it you put it? Oh yeah - "post hoc ergo properter hoc"!!
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Correlation does not imply causation.

How was it you put it? Oh yeah - "post hoc ergo properter hoc"!!
Good one. Fortunately we loony Austrians reject empiricism within economics. Airtight logic will do fine. And I'm sure you've never misspelt a word in your life
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Good one. Fortunately we loony Austrians reject empiricism within economics. Airtight logic will do fine. And I'm sure you've never misspelt a word in your life
It's a joke 20000miles. I thought you had a sense of humour! But then again the guy who told me that didn't have much of one himself!

Luckily you do - so why the graph then????
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Um, why can't we help Africa? They have plenty of resources we don't mind taking away from them.

Surely we could help them by allowing them to control their own lives instead of being at the mercy of the west.
by "we" I meant the government, people are obviously free to "help" away, the problem with aid is it creates dependency, that's not an economic relationship
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