Nostrums
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He sought to expose the bankruptcy of ascendant ideological
nostrums
: laissez-faire, spontaneous order, collective cooperation, central planning.
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The publicity and resulting panic surrounding the WHO’s announcement of Phase 5 and 6 alerts – especially in the absence (until December) of widely available vaccine – also brought out fraudsters peddling all sorts of ineffective and possibly dangerous protective gear and nostrums: gloves, masks, dietary supplements, shampoo, a nasal sanitizer, and a spray that supposedly coats the hands with a layer of anti-microbial “ionic silver.”
Instead of being creative, they have been inspired by a wave of neo-liberal
nostrums
that blinds them to other opportunities.
Indeed, only an ongoing skepticism of fashionable political
nostrums
- both of the statist and market fundamentalist variety - can promote pluralism and tolerance, and avoid a ballooning of the bureaucracy that enfeebles our economy.
Such employee ownership, uncritically lumped together with socialist
nostrums
over the years, was once widely dismissed as a nutty, ideological illusion.
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