Saturday, October 17, 2009

US Gets a Marxist-Leninist President, Georgia Gets a Misean-Rothbardian One

Here's an Englih translation of Saakashvili's recent libertarian speech. Below is the most striking quote:

But when we are speaking about economic liberalism, this is something different - we do not refer to other cultures to implement economic liberalism in our country. Of course the ideology of economic liberalism comes from Milton Friedman and Murray Rothbard, Hayek and von Mises, but for me an aspirator of this all is a great Georgian think-tank and one of the founders of our Georgian statehood Ilia Chavchavadze.

(unfortunately the names were misspelled - they hired a bad translator)

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