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The author at It Don't Mean Much, These Seats are Cheap. in a related article titled Making Markets…Be Markets? writes:
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Daniel Kuehn writes:
"What is ironic to me is that the Roosevelt Institute people can cite clear evidence of government failure while proposing more government." It's only ironic if you forget the fact that they're juggling competing concerns about market failure and government failure. It's not like there's a dial that you turn up for "more government" and turn down for "less government" and the mere existence of government failure means that the "more government" method is wrong. The question is - what KIND of government are we proposing? Economists recognize market failures - that doesn't lead them to reject the free market. It just leads them to think critically about using the right tools for the right job, and not looking at either "government" or "the market" as some homogenous, monolithic beast. Posted March 9, 2010 8:51 AM
Nick writes:
Small correction his name is Wile E. Coyote. Posted March 9, 2010 9:10 AM
DW writes:
Sounds like Near vs Far thinking to me. A La Robin http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/disagreement-is-nearfar-bias.html Posted March 9, 2010 9:58 AM
Lord writes:
But how do we get rid of the investment banks? Posted March 9, 2010 4:27 PM
buermann writes:
Well that's rather unfair. On what planet does "consolidation" mean "more"? Merging many things into one, be they business or government entities, means "less". Cornell's point, as was Warren's, was that there's too much government to be effective. Toes, tripping, shoelaces tied together, so on. Or are you just opposed to more effective governance, even if it entails less government? Posted March 10, 2010 4:35 AM
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