knb comments on Open thread, Feb. 9 - Feb. 15, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: knb 09 February 2015 10:39:25PM 8 points [-]

I think you've missed an important distinction in libertarian groups. Goldbugs tend to be more Malthusian than Cornucopian. In fact, Goldbugs are usually bulls on all commodities and perma-bears on everything else. Goldbugs tend to be paleo-libertarians like Mises Institute/Lew Rockwell etc. The Cornucopian libertarians tend to be cosmotarians like Reason Foundation/Cato Institute, etc. E.g. Julian Simon was a member of Cato.