He comes out against school vouchers, saying that the government shouldn t be involved in education at all. Overall, this is one of the best popular treatments on the cultural meaning of prosperity to appear in many years. Still, the flaws in the book are, from an Austrian perspective, significant, and undermine many of its strong points. Those who would advocate sustainable development claim that the free market does not adequately differentiate between present and future needs. Conversely, those same advocates hold that they possess clairvoyance when it comes to understanding the future.
Government is the answer.
Many well-educated people complain of a shortage of opportunities in their chosen field, but the unfortunate fact is that many of them, such as musical composers, have come to cater to the tastes of rarefied academics rather than a public which would pay for what it wants. The history of writing has shown us not only how dramatically the tools of writing have changed, but also how much the markets for those tools have changed. Writing will remain with us, regardless of public policy. But the technology that changes the way we write will very much depend on letting dynamic marketplaces continue to thrive. But now he has a very serious problem that should remind him that some forces are even more powerful than his Zeus-like self.