Connor Court Quarterly No. 13: The Role of the State - Paperback

by Jeffrey Tucker (Contribution by), Marc Hendrickx (Contribution by), Daniel Wild (Contribution by)

Articles exploring the role of the State in focing economies to be placed in hypernation to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Articles from Jeffrey Tucker, Marc Hendrickx and Daniel Wild.

Essays Include:

Our Ten Days that Shook the World -- Jeffrey Tucker

"We tried to "flatten the curve" to preserve hospital capacity, but this is just a fancy way of saying "prolong the pain." It was a form of rationing access to medical services, seemingly necessary given the scoliosis of this highly regulated industrial sector. But the political class and their modelers only considered one kind of pain. Other forms of pain are already here in the form of mass unemployment, waves of bankruptcy, rising despair, social division and anger, a panicked political class, and a seething fury on the part of millions of people - who had long taken their right to work and associate as a given - who suddenly find themselves under house arrest."