With the rise of pro-market thinking, British political theorist John Grays ideological metamorphosisfrom classical liberal to welfare statistis an anomaly meriting close inspection. Gray may be sending a wake-up call to his former allies when he complains that the liberty maxim they loudly trumpet sounds more like a reflexive mantra than a well-grounded principle.
The Ways of John Gray
A Libertarian Commentary
By Daniel B. Klein
This
article
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the Summer 1999 issue of The Independent Review.
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