Ingat pepatah yg menang yg menulis jalannya sejarah? Embargo ekonomi, pengacauan ekonomi dan sosial-lah yg menyebabkan negara2 tsb berada dibagian bawah dari listing pertumbuhan ekonomi dari kacamata kapitalis.
Kalo sistem kapitalis itu sama dengan kebebasan ekonomi dan sistem sosialis itu cenderung mengungkung kebebasan ekonomi lah sistem politik apa yg dipakai oleh negara2 kapitalis? bukannya sistem sosialis ----> demokrasi/democrazy? Sama seperti dibursa semua diatur oleh bandar bagaimana para pelaku di bursa berpandangan pastilah berusaha utk dipengaruhi oleh bandar, mau bullish mau bearish tinggal diatur kok. Cuma yg pintar yg bisa membaca strategi bandar. makanya bandar IDX takut sama si embah. ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Kosasih To: obrolan-bandar@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [obrolan-bandar] main saham >< kapitalis Sistem tidak ada yang sempurna. Tapi kadang-kadang kita kurang mengerti esensi sesungguhnya dari sistem EKONOMI kapitalis atau sosialis. Esensinya adalah kadar kebebasan perekonomian dan kebebasan dalan berbisnis. Kapitalis cenderung diatur agar lebih bebas, sementara sosialis cenderung diatur agar lebih "sesuai dengan keinginan mayoritas" (yang belum tentu sesuai dengan kaidah bisnis). Sejauh ini, terbukti dari indeks yang dibikin dari badan pengamat korupsi dan badan riset kesejahteraan dunia global "2007 Index of World Economic Freedom", negara-negara yang menganut faham kapitalis SELALU jauh lebih makmur masyarakatnya (baik yang bekerja di pasar modal maupun yang tidak) dibanding yang menganut faham sosialis. Orang-orang miskin di negara-negara Kapitalis pun lebih "makmur" daripada orang-orang miskin di negara-negara Sosialis Saya cuma ingat TOP 7 dari TOP 25 yang EKONOMI-nya Paling Kapitalis (higher economic freedom): Nomor 1 adalah......... Hong Kong (tetap dihitung "negara" karena punya mata uang sendiri) Nomor 2 adalah......... Singapura (hehehe...) Nomor 3 adalah......... Australia Nomor 4 adalah......... Selandia Baru Nomor 5 adalah......... Amerika (bukan nomor 1 tuh ternyata...) Nomor 6 adalah......... Inggris & Irlandia (skor-nya sama) Nomor 7 adalah......... Luxemburg & Swiss (skor-nya sama) Juga TOP 7 dari TOP 25 yang EKONOMI-nya Paling Sosialis (lower economic freedom): Nomor 1 adalah......... Kuba (paling ancur) Nomor 2 adalah......... Libya Nomor 3 adalah......... Zimbabwe Nomor 4 adalah......... Burma Nomor 5 adalah......... Turkmenistan Nomor 6 adalah......... Kongo Nomor 7 adalah......... Iran Di situ jelas terlihat bahwa negara-negara yang paling tidak bebas perekonomiannya (bukan pergaulannya) alias yang Paling Tidak Kapitalistik perekonomiannya adalah juga yang paling miskin masyarakatnya, meskipun sumberdaya negaranya berlimpah-limpah. Juga tidak ada hubungannya apakah negara itu bekas jajahan atau bukan. Indonesia sendiri bagaimana? Apakah kita sudah benar-benar memiliki perekonomian yang benar-benar mendukung dunia bisnis? Silakan teman-teman kaji sendiri. Salam OB... Penjelasan soal Economic Freedom silakan lihat di bawah, saya kutip buat teman-teman OB: The "2007 Index of Economic Freedom" displays a color-coded map showing countries that are free, mostly free, moderately free, mostly unfree and repressed. Guess where one finds the world's most miserably poor people? If you guessed the mostly unfree and repressed countries, you guessed correctly. Some people claim that some countries are rich because of abundant natural resources. That's nonsense! Africa and South America are probably the richest continents in natural resources, but are home to some of the world's poorest people. By contrast, countries like England, Japan and Hong Kong are poor in natural resources, but their people are among the world's wealthiest. Hong Kong even has to import its food and water. Some people use the history of colonialism as an excuse for poverty. That's also nonsense. The United States was a colony. So were Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, but they're rich countries. The reason some countries are rich while others are poor is best explained by the amount of economic freedom its peoples enjoy and the extent of government control over economic matters. Don't make the mistake of equating economic freedom with democracy. After all, India, politically, is a democracy, but economically it is mostly unfree and poor, ranking 104th in economic freedom. There are countries on the economic freedom index that do not have much of a history of democracy, such as Chile, ranking 11th, and Taiwan, 26th, and yet these countries are far wealthier than some of their more democratic counterparts. Why? It's because their economic systems are free or mostly free, which is not guaranteed by a democratic political system. The economic development lesson is clear: Have a system of economic freedom and grow rich. Extensive government control, weak property rights and government corruption almost guarantee poverty. A country's institutional infrastructure is critical to its economic growth and the well-being of its citizens. The most critical are protection of private property, enforcement of contracts and rule of law.
