Jane Jacobs?

[nancylebov]

I mentioned that I think Jane Jacobs is better known among libertarians than elsewhere in the comments here, and then it occurred to me that I don't really know. Unfortunately, lj doesn't offer a good way of getting correlations among different answers, and this isn't a random sample either, but I hope to get a better-informed vague impression.

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Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

The essay is intriguing, but I suspect that a lot of people involved in politics are mixtures of wonk and geek.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Sure, but that's an inherent issue in applying discrete conceptual categories to a continuously variable underlying reality. I believe the Greeks called it sorites; English names include the Paradox of the Heap and the Paradox of the Bald Man.

Libertarianism, like socialism, attracts people out toward the geek end of the spectrum.