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In reply to the discussion: New Leader Of UK's Green Party: Nuclear Power Is The Betamax Of The Energy World [View all]tama
(9,137 posts)How do you understand "demonstrable positive externalities", and "flourish" of industry? And how does social capital of guild members hurt "outsiders"? Who were the outsiders? Was social capital of guilds primarily responsible for slaving peasants? Or are the "outsiders" somehow related to "free trade and technological innovation, technology transfer and business development", which sounds like the usual neo-liberal blather?
Ogilvie is praised as "intellectual heroine of modern classical liberalism" (http://www.iea.org.uk/blog/sheilagh-ogilvie-classical-liberal-heroine).
"Classical liberalism is a political ideology, a branch of liberalism which advocates individual liberties and limited government under the rule of law and emphasizes economic freedom." "According to E. K. Hunt, classical liberals made four assumptions about human nature: People were "egoistic, coldly calculating, essentially inert and atomistic".[15]" "There was a revival of interest in classical liberalism in the 20th century led by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.[8] Some call the modern development of classical liberalism "neo-classical liberalism", which argued for government to be as small as possible in order to allow the exercise of individual freedom, while some refer to all liberalism before the 20th century as classical liberalism.[9]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
Is your own ideological background same as Ogilvies?