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Central Planning Sucks (Video)

08/11/2012

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Corbett Report Radio 195 - Central Planning Sucks

08/11/2012

There is a school of thought which believes that our society would be better off if its decision-making processes were centralized in the hands of an elite few technocrats (or, better yet, computers). In their view, we will be better off when questions over resource allocation, production and investment are answered by recourse to data and equations, without regard to the fundamental market institution: money. Today on the program, James explores not just why this idea is fundamentally wrong, but why it is fundamentally dangerous.

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Corbett Report Radio 083 - The Technocratic "Smart" Grid with Patrick Wood

03/06/2012

The digital smart meters that are being installed across America and around the world are just the thin edge of the wedge in the implementation of a global smart grid -- a system of total information and total control over the energy and appliances in our own homes. The smart grid itself is the apple in the eye of the Technocrats, a group of would-be social engineers and world controllers who dream of a world where people will be controlled with energy credits and carbon allowances. Joining us tonight to break down the technocratic history behind this global grid is Patrick Wood, editor of The August Forecast and Review.

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The Last Word on Utopia

08/03/20110 Comments


It is never a popular thing to warn against utopia. But it is nonetheless necessary.

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Against Utopia

08/03/20111 Comment

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