How is a fully unregulated market economy sound economic policy that is driven by facts obtained through trial and error when there has never existed one outside of academia and libertarian policy journals. Somalia is brought up to disparage libertarians but even it has a market driven by Islamic extremists who ostensibly are in control of it by killing people for selling televisions, alcohol and denying aid to those who do not want to live under some caliphate. Can you give an example of where this invisible hand i.e. a fully unregulated market economy has existed?
These sort of utopias on the right just seem no different from a fully classless and stateless society that communism promises or a heaven after death that the Abrahamic religions promise. I’m a political and economic pluralist and I know that the only way forward is to have an open society with a big table for everyone to have a say at. With enough hands and heads at work we may hopefully muddle towards progress rather than fumble and regress, well, at least most of the time. Isn’t that the rational, albeit messy reality of the human institution of democracy? If that is democracy, what the hell is libertarianism?
