HOW TO PRESENT MISES AND RAND IN THE 20th CENTURY?
I would present it (as I do) as a last ditch desperate attempt to reach the enlightenment utopia embodied in both cosmopolitan middle class universalism, and anglo puritanical middle class universalism.
But that both movements were failures and had to be, because universalism and equality are merely utilitarian merchant philosophies of self interest made possible by temporary economic advantage.
And that the dream of a market of everyone or the dream of an aristocracy of everybody, are ideological fancies that are politically untenable, largely undesirable, and competitively unsuccessful.
As such the virtue of the program is limited to the insights into cooperation made possible by information. And that our institutional problem across the past four millennia remains the constant need to improve means of information use and distribution as the scale and diversity of the division of labor expands analogistically to fractal evolution into all parts of human existence.
Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 08:22:00 UTC
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