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Dougherty Reviews Miller’s Size Matters

The size of government, that is.  Michael writes a solid, favourable review of Joel Miller’s Size Matters at AFF’s Brainwash and considers the problems of deregulation in a society lacking in any strong bonds of cultural and moral community.  Here is a snippet: There may be a chicken and egg debate here. Were the people adventurers […]

The size of government, that is.  Michael writes a solid, favourable review of Joel Miller’s Size Matters at AFF’s Brainwash and considers the problems of deregulation in a society lacking in any strong bonds of cultural and moral community.  Here is a snippet:

There may be a chicken and egg debate here. Were the people adventurers and innovators because they were free? Or were they free because adventurers and innovators assert and maintain their own freedom? The question for today may not be “What happens when the people are not free?” but, “What happens when the people do not want freedom?”

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