Tuesday, December 30, 2008

The least ideological defense of free markets

One of the failures of proponents of free market principles is not communicating the ideas in a logical and coherent manner. Frequently, advocates make generalized, exaggerated, and unqualified claims that lead to logically weak and easily defeated arguments.

One of the least ideological and most coherent defenses of free markets is done by Alvaro Vargas Llosa and George Ayittey, contributors to the book Making Poor Nations Rich, discussing their work on a C-SPAN program. You can watch the entire program by clicking on the link below:

http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=9154&SectionName=&PlayMedia=No

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