Another Randroid quote from Hayek

[Narkos]

That one of my libertarian friends quotes incessantly "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. " Snappy comebacks?

[Doc_Technical]

1. How about:

Why concern yourself with the rantings of a spoiled brat
rich kid who went on a life-long temper tantrum after she
had her toys taken away?

[Warpy]

2. Check out my sig line.

[zbdent]

3. so why does anybody think a "conservative" mind can come up with

something new?

[angryfirelord]

4. Well, it depends on who he's talking to

It's true that this quote would hold true to someone like a Soviet central planner, who attempted to use statistics to create the ideal economy and ended up failing. However, Hayek in some regards wasn't actually an all hard-out Randian. He still believed, abet limited, that the state should still have some form of a safety net. It may have been as a way to get his ideas out at the time, but I think it shows that even he didn't know all of the answers. A lot of libertarians though still use his other quotes to promote their utopian free market.

[roamer65]

5. I usually tell them...

that the unfettered social darwinism of the 1920's proved that it is a failure. Government involvement in the economy is necessary as proved by the 1930's AND the 1940's. Roosevelt's New Deal and World War II spending revived our economy.