1. I've been nursing a grudge against this Adam Gopnik New Yorker essay on John Stuart Mill for about 8 years: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/06/right-again …
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@henryfarrell notes, Mill's response to famine was "to contemn in the harshest terms efforts to help" people starving to death -
6. The key fact to remember is that famine was man-made and relief (feeding the starving) was very feasible if government wanted to do it.
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@HeerJeet "You poors are deserving of this famine for relying on the lumper potato, when you could have just been born rich."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet@henryfarrell Correct that Mill was not always a Millian, but does not undo the reassessment of Progressivism on the table... -
@tylercowen@HeerJeet@henryfarrell Hayek's belief that Mill was pulled to socialism by Harriet Taylor is relevant http://public.econ.duke.edu/~bjc18/docs/HOPE404-06caldwell-2.pdf … - Show replies
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