Posts Tagged as ‘George Will’

September 23, 2008

George Will vs. John McCain

I’m beginning to wonder if George Will is even going to vote in this election.
Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate is behaving like a flustered rookie playing in a league too high. It is not Barack Obama. [...]
Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by [...]

September 14, 2008

Invisible Hand/Magic Wand

I love that the economist in George Will’s parable about free markets (or at least the parable that he is quoting from someone else) is a woman. How very modern of him.  Though it kind of has me picturing Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand” as Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother. Doesn’t this sort of look like “spontaneous emergence [...]