Thoughts on Freedom

Gerry Jackson says that he supports the free-market, but he spends a lot of time attacking other free-market writers as ignorant, arrogant, selfish, incompetent, dishonest, cowardly and a “bloody disgrace”. He then whinges about being insulted and ignored.

He claims that he is “Australia’s only Austrian economist” when in reality he is neither trained in economics and nor does he understand basic economics. He then mocks real economists by saying they are “self-appointed”.

In his latest hit-piece, Gerry attacks Des Moore, Sinclair Davison, Chris Berg, Ron Manners and my paper on the carbon tax (a paper he clearly didn’t understand). But that is to be expected, so we can continue to ignore the personal attacks in his hate-filled rants. But the article is interesting for how it exposes Gerry’s ignorance of basic economics.

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