And how could he possibly be more important than Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, and Adam Smith? Maybe Megan the emcee will explain.
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And how could he possibly be more important than Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, and Adam Smith? Maybe Megan the emcee will explain.
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Omnes Omnibus
I think it is the name of the guy on whom Rand modeled Hank Rearden.
Jeffro
Good lord, what a fail parade…
I eagerly await how the market receives this and prices a VIP table accordingly.
cleek
Baldy Harper = douchebaggy libertarian economist.
taxes are slavery! let’s all beat one out for freedom! fapfapfap!
JPL
A meal with a bunch of dead folks and foreigners…no thank you. I’m a real American.
max hats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._A._Harper
This guy, I guess?
I’m not going to bother diving too deep, because no doubt soon enough Andrew Sullivan will be regaling one and all about his virtues and the seminal role he played in Oakshottian convervatism in the vain of [head on desk]
BB
Hayek started every day by waxing his “baldy harper.”
JPL
Doug you were not going to post again for weeks. What happened?
jwb
I like the way you take leaves around here, DougJ. Just like when John tells us he’s going Galt and then blasts us with ten posts in an hour.
max hats
Related:
Conservatives on academics are like conservatives on Hollywood celebrities.
“We don’t care, they’re elitists, not a big deal, irrelevant to real America. . .wait, this one over here agrees with us? GIVE THIS MAN A MICROPHONE, TV SHOW AND BOOK COVER STAT.”
Guster
So is liberty to be defined in such a way as to allow me to take from you the product of your labor, so long as I _don’t_ claim that I shall use it for your welfare, or for the ‘general welfare?’
Who is this commie?
Violet
Warning! That link is a PDF. Non-PDF link here.
Holy cow, that is AWFUL. I had the misfortune to hear McMegan on the radio a few weeks ago. I can’t imagine listening to her emcee something. Urgh.
Violet
From the link I posted:
So he’s the founder. That’s why he gets top billing.
Mark S.
From his wikipedia article:
Well, he was eulogized by an idiot.
I was expecting a little more baldy.
mr. whipple
I’ve always wondered: do pdf’s have cooties or something?
jrg
I love the libertarian “taxes are just like slavery” bit. Hey asshole… Slaves don’t have the option to pack up and move to Somalia. You do. Don’t like taxes? Fine. Get the fuck out.
Violet
@mr. whipple: PDFs don’t always open well for people. PDF readers can be a pain.
Martin
You have a Mac? The Mac is exceptional at handling PDFs – so much so that they’re almost ‘invisible’ to the user like PNGs and other standard formats. One of it’s more distinguishing features for me given my job.
Windows users typically suffer from relying on Adobe’s godawful PDF client that once was fantastic and then morphed into this 17 headed behemoth best suited to rampaging through Japanese cities rather than silently showing you a page of content.
kth
This Institute For Humane Studies, which Baldy Harper founded, seems to be a viper’s nest of evil conservative creeps. Three guesses as to the surname of the chairman of the board, without peeking, and the first two don’t count.
MoeLarryAndJesus
Baldy Harper sounds like the name of an ex-con who gets irradiated and ends up as a villain in one of the early Spider-man comics.
Those old Stan Lee names were great. Maybe Megan can start referring to herself as “Agatha Harkness.”
Though that would be offensive to poor old Agatha.
mr. whipple
No. Never had a problem with pdf’s, but always see these warnings and wondered why.
lankyloo
Huh, I was sure that he was one of the villains in They Live.
MonkeyBoy
So if Megan McArdle plays dogsbody to oligarchs enough does she really expect them to recognize her and give her an expensive house and a generous yearly sinecure?
wasabi gasp
Baldy harper is Bonobo for lap dance.
Dr. Loveless
I had no idea Koch-sucking was so lucrative. At that price, the Baldy Harper had better be the best blowjob ever.
JGabriel
I don’t know if there’s a God or a Satan, but if they exist then: it’s surely a sign that Satan is winning when a group asking Charles fucking Koch for opening remarks at dinner is allowed to call itself the Institute for Humane Studies.
Poor Orwell. Poor all of us.
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Anne Laurie
I mentioned the Emcee, in the last post down.
Now if only we could come up with an equally sure-fire means of attracting Cole’s attention…
fasteddie9318
What, there’s no “I. P. Freely”-level sponsorship?
Mark S.
Laura Clawson?
Mark S.
Hmm, George Mason University. Is that school very respected? It seems like it houses a helluva lot of right wing nutjobs.
Roy G
Heh, I thought ‘Baldy’ was their nickname for Stephen Harper, and they were going to fete him for his Canadian coup.
Judge Crater
We’re doomed. What kind of culture validates this kind of grotesque materialism and worship of wealth and power? We’ve reached a tipping point and the outcome will be very unpleasant.
JGabriel
Monkey Boy:
Mischief Managed!
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Nylund
That is why I use Foxit Reader to view my PDFs. Super quick and free. But if someone knows of something better, I’m all ears.
JGabriel
Judge Crater:
Well, human culture really. I mean, most monarchies fit that description, and we’ve had monarchies for several millennia.
Edited to Add: Of course, many monarchs have had some sense of noblesse oblige that required them to rule, to at least some small extent, for the benefit of their subjects. Our oligarchs, on the other hand, seem to rejoice in hurting and impoverishing their subjects (i.e., employees) and fellow citizens to every extent they can imagine.
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gnomedad
“Institute for Humane Studies”? Isn’t that rather high-falutin’? Shouldn’t that be the “Heartland Exceptional Liberty Institute” or something?
Citizen_X
Baldy Harper? Wasn’t that Victorian-era Cockney slang for a blow job? “Never mind the in-out then, luv. ‘Ow much fer the old Baldy ‘arper?”
joeyess
Baldy Harper Shoots Smack!
GregB
Perhaps it is time to give Baldy Harper the Santorum treatment?
MikeBoyScout
Damn, there’s going to be a “parade”.
When I imagine a “parade of IHS alumni” I imagine Pink Elephants on Parade.
What do you conjure?
Judge Crater
Well, yes, exactly. But, we believe our Republic had transcended such regressive systems of governance. Have we now just capitulated to the darker nature of the human condition?
Morbo
Speaking of Libertarianism, something interesting from yesterday: The Liberty Scam: Why even Robert Nozick, the philosophical father of libertarianism, gave up on the movement he inspired.
PeakVT
@Nylund – I use Foxit, but sometimes I switch to PDF-Xchange because it seems to handle large files better.
Roger Moore
@Anne Laurie:
Be a good looking woman who asks for a pet open thread. I think that’s been demonstrated conclusively.
gnomedad
@cleek:
Also, I can’t tell Whizzo Butter from this dead crab.
timb
@MonkeyBoy
I think she already has it from David Bradley, wingnut oligarch, who somehow provided her a sinecure she did not deserve as “a business and economics” editor
Judas Escargot
I love how Adam Smith’s seat is the bottom of the list.
Xenos
George Mason University is heavily funded by the Koch brothers, and according to one source, hosts something like 40 libertarian think-tanks and such.
Big suprise, really.
Brandon
I’ve just been jumping around Wikipedia reading about all of these morons and it is amazing just how long the Wingnut Welfare circuit has been around. And I think I have found Wingnut Welfare’s patron saint:
They should really have the slogan, “Conservatism: Parting Fools with their Money since 1932”.
goblue72
George Mason U. is a middling PUBLIC university that the Koch Bros. dangled their money bags in front of. The administration, seeing no other financial means available to them to attempt to climb the US News rankings, took the Koch Bros. blood money – said Koch Bros then went on a spending spree hiring on every right-wing economists they could find. By renting the name of a university, they get to stamp their ideological rantings with a veneer of academic respectability.
Kind of like how David Bradley bought the Atlantic in order to use its historical brand identity to give his neo-con/libertarian sociopathy the veneer of old guard respectability.
As for McCardle, she’s a whore and she knows it. Its why she gets so harpyish defensive anytime anyone calls her on her crap.
Mnemosyne
I think Baldy was a little confused about the concept of slavery if he thought that you earned a salary for being a slave that was somehow confiscated by your master before it got to you.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
ya know, if i ever won the supermillions lottery, in addition to worthy causes, and activism i believe in; just for fun, i would love to buy a ton of tickets to one of these type things, and fill the seats with some genuine hell raisers, minimally coached by me, and with a modest plan to disrupt, extemporaneously.
you know people on the right, who hold these order-of-magnitude overpriced chicken dinners figure the cost, for the purposes of doing just that, keeps the riff-raff out…
i want to bring riff-raff back.
sure paying these a-holes off in fundraising might be objectionable to some, but i figure, if the targets are frequent enough, and randomized just a bit, it would scare off more potential donors than i displace.
Douglas
Regarding the PDF question, they can also serve as vector for virii. So there’s some risk in opening a PDF of unknown origin.
Cheryl from Maryland
Morbo at #41 — Great article.
“The idea that supernormal compensation is fit reward for supernormal talent is the ideological superglue of neoliberalism ..” is so true, with the current addition that if one gets supernormal compensation, one must be supernormally talented.
Cheryl from Maryland
#53, bother, I meant, that’s what libertarians believe, not that it is accurate. Note to self, do not post before coffee.
PopeRatzy
Okay, which BJer edited the Wikipedia page for Baldy Harper
“Dr. Floyd Arthur Harper (February 7, 1905 – April 1973), better known as F. A. Harper or “Baldy” Harper, was an American academic, economist and writer, renowned for his large male breasts. ”
LMAO!
vernon
@PopeRatzy: That was me! But it would be cool if BJers nationwide kept going back & re-doing it whenever it gets reverted …
MarkJ
Speaking as an economist, this program is proof that conservatives/libertarians know nothing about economics. The sponsor levels are priced in exactly reverse order of the quality of the economist. Adam Smith should clearly be #1, followed by Milton Friedman, who despite being a libertarian crackpot made some real contributions to monetary policy. Hayek had some “unorthodox” things to say, but overall his stuff is pretty irrelevant unless you’re a radical libertarian. I’ve never heard of Baldy.
John X.
@JGabriel
Monarchies actually have a decent track record for stability. They tend to be corrupt, erratic and dictatorial, but they also have a powerful redeeming feature.
The ruling family considers their kingdom to be their property. They preserve it from harm out of self-interest, as it is the kingdom that they will pass down to their family.
Our current crop of oligarchs, on the other hand, have houses all over the world and don’t seem to give a shit whether they break their home countries. It’s self-interest without any leavening sense of ownership.
jake the snake
Noblesse without the oblige.
Joel
Baldy Harper sounds like someone’s nickname for their penis.
Gramsci
I think Baldy Harper was also the inventor of pink sea salt.
karen marie
I thought I remembered reading that Baldy Harper killed a hobo back in 1999.