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"Economies don't have wills of their own." I totally agree with this. Economies (or markets) are tools. When someone propose "Laissez-faire" and that the gove
by RobertoG 11y ago
"Economies don't have wills of their own."
I totally agree with this. Economies (or markets) are tools.
When someone propose "Laissez-faire" and that the government is just interfering, he is just saying that economies have wills of their own.
- icebraining 11y agoWould you say the same if we replaced "families" for "economies"?
- lr4444lr 11y agoNot likely. Families (generally, when they're intact) don't compete internally for resources or seek to gain leverage over one another through informational asymmetry and protective tariffs. Monetarily speaking, their constituents are either neutral to or supportive of one another.
- icebraining 11y agoI'd say that's either a very idyllic or a very limited view of the family.
- RobertoG 11y agoOf course I would. In fact, that is an excellent metaphor. At least in my family, we follow the following pattern to arrive to a decision: We choose what we want for the family, we discuss the possible paths, and we decide where we invest the resources of the family. In others words, we have a form of government. What we don't do is this: We discuss and decide about nothing, because we trust that the result of the forces of our internal interactions it's the only true path to 'optimal' outcomes.