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The case for and against Liberalism - Erik Torenberg

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Housekeeping: We just launched a new show, Run the Numbers, by the great CJ Gustafson of Mostly Metrics. Check it out. I hope this is the leading show for CFOs /finance folks among others and we’re to create more category-leading shows. We also re-posted my 1:1 interview with Vivek Ramaswamy. We’ve discussed liberalism quite a bit recently, we’ll do a recap here. The great problem in society is how you deal with conflict. We use markets to determine who has economic resources. We use democracy to determine who has political power. And we use science to determine who has truth. Quoting Jonathan Rauch from his great book Kindly Inquisitors which we’ve covered previously: "A market game is an open-ended, decentralized process for allocating resources & legitimizing possession. A democracy game is an open-ended, decentralized process for legitimizing the use of force. A science game is an open-ended, decentralized process for legitimizing belief. In biological evolution, no species is spar

The case for and against Liberalism As a system that can stand on its own Erik Torenberg Aug 28, 2023 27 5 1 Share Housekeeping: We just launched a new show, Run the Numbers , by the great CJ Gustafson of Mostly Metrics . Check it out . I hope this is the leading show for CFOs /finance folks among others and we’re to create more category-leading shows. We also re-posted my 1:1 interview with Vivek Ramaswamy. The defense of liberalism We’ve discussed liberalism quite a bit recently, we’ll do a recap here. The great problem in society is how you deal with conflict. We use markets to determine wh

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