Folks, have had this query:
We need some examples of cases where government regulations have spurred
technological or other innovations with significant economic benefits
resulting.
Any good suggestions for summary resources?
thanks--
Eban Goodstein
Jim Devine wrote:
Mark:
>The only "revolutionaries" to vote consistently Democratic over much
>of this stretch wore hoods and sheets and voted early and often.
Louis Proyect wrote:
This is absolutely true. Before the New Deal, there was little to
distinguish Democrat from Republican. We seem to have returned to the
status quo ante.
If I remember correctly, before the New Deal, the DP was in favor of
free trade, while the GOP was not. Nowadays, those roles have been
partially reversed. There may have been some other differences between
the parties, but of course their attitude toward capitalism was the
same.
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Jim Devine / "Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to
them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it
means something entirely different." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Eban Goodstein
Professor of Economics
Lewis & Clark College
Portland, OR 97219
www.lclark.edu/~eban
503-768-7626
