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Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 8, 2024

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Intelligence and Democratic Action by Frank Hyneman Knight (1960).

I was looking up if anyone had used the term "familism" to describe an ideology that orients itself around promoting the family and discovered that Frank Knight did, in that individualism should more rightly be called familism as the family is the effective basic unit of economics. Knight was one of the founders of the Chicago School of Economics, taught Milton Friedman, and is the spiritual godfather of neoliberalism. Unlike Friedman, Knight was much more pessimistic about the ability of the market to regulate itself and viewed it only as the best of a bunch of bad options. I'm finding his perspective to be refreshingly terse, straightforward, and skeptical.