On Jun 14, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
The real thrust of NK's column is that BHO is not a socialist.
Neither is she, except maybe on some days when she is.
The Shock Doctrine, p. 20:
"I am not arguing that all forms of market systems are inherently
violent. It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that
requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A
free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health
care.... It's equally possible to require corporations to pay decent
wages, to respect the rights of workers to form unions, and for
governments to tax and redistribute wealth.... Markets need not be
fundamentalist.
Keynes proposed exactly that kind of mixed, regulated economy...,
a revolution in public policy that created the New Deal.... It was
exactly that system of compromises, checks and balances that
Friedman's counterrevolution was launched to methodically
dismantle.... Seen in that light, the Chicago School strain of
capitalism does indeed have something in common with other dangerous
ideologies: the signature desire for unattainable purity, for a clean
slate on which to build a reengineered model society."
Which doesn't sound radically different from the Hamilton Project's
"About" box:
<http://www.brookings.edu/PROJECTS/HAMILTONPROJECT.ASPX>
"The Hamilton Project produces research and policy proposals on how
to create a growing economy that benefits more Americans. The
Hamilton Project’s economic strategy reflects a judgment that long
term prosperity is best achieved by making economic growth broad-
based, by enhancing individual economic security, and by embracing a
role for effective government in making needed public investments."
Doug_______________________________________________
pen-l mailing list
pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu
https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
