Michael Strong

<p>Michael Strong: <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" widows: 2; text-align: auto; font-size: 16px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; text-transform: none; border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-indent: 0px; orphans: 2; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 22px; font-family: Georgia; text-align: left;">The primary reason that I was converted from left-liberalism to libertarianism was due to the unambiguous superiority of, in Hayek’s terms, “the creative powers of a free civilization” as compared to the public choice process. Once I learned to see how the cumulative effects of countless innovations takes place by means of a massive selection process, and that the necessarily cumbersome public choice process couldn’t possibly create the fantastic cumulative innovations that we see taking place through free enterprise, then “libertarianism” became a no-brainer, a necessary moral cause.</span></span></p>