Re: Remember the Housing "Bubble"?

In article <xLednY0bIbCTl4LbnZ2dnUVZ_v2knZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Dave O'Neill" <daveon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Again--do you think universities should be forced to hire a substantial
fraction of people with either libertarian on conservative views? That
would seem to be another implication of the argument you are
making--that you don't have free speech unless someone ensures that all
positions are about equally well represented.

I think it would be nice. I think it would actually be harder for the
universities to find a sustantial fraction of people with libertarian
views
to hire.

The question wasn't whether it "would be nice". The question is
whether you think they should be *forced* to do it.

Do you actually think you could find enough libertarians?

Just picking up on this bit.

To begin with, they could probably find enough conservatives--especially
if it had been known for a while that there were lots of unfilled
academic positions reserved for them.

As for libertarians, there are a fair number of libertarians in
economics. And since, as any good economist could tell you, practically
everything is really economics, we can use the surplus to fill up the
deficit of libertarians in political science, and sociology, and
history, and ... .

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