The Past Speaks

Last night I watched a first-class Bloggingheads discussion between Will Wilkinson and Joseph Heath. Heath, who is a philosophy professor at University of Toronto, was discussing his new book, Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism. What I like most about this book is that Heath exposes the economic fallacies of the right (e.g., the idea that cutting the size of the welfare state will boost economic growth) as well as those of the left. Will Wilkinson had some very interesting and counterintuitive things to say about the degree of economic freedom in Canada and Denmark (by some measures it is actually higher than in the United States).