June 02, 2003

Institutional Economics pulls out this great quote from the Chronical article on academic bloggers:

"I've certainly changed my picture of what libertarians are like," says Chris Bertram, a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Bristol, in England, whose blog persona is "Junius." Mr. Bertram, a social democrat, says that he and his fellow political philosophers sometimes suffer from a constricted field of vision, with "all kinds of received opinions that just aren't shared by most other people." Mr. Bertram says that debates with other bloggers have taught him that many libertarians do not follow Robert Nozick's philosophical principles, but instead favor markets "for other, basically more pragmatic, reasons." He adds, "There's been a mildly rightward pressure on my politics."
Posted by Greg Ransom