Harry Pollard wrote:
This is of course why in countries with controlled economies they never
have to worry about "risking unintended bad consequences".
Because they don't have the substance either.
Well, Harry, what's the solution? If controlled ecomonies
cannot invent or produce anything of value, and, in
uncontrolled economies, the things are invented (sometimes)
and produced (sometimes) but only for what the market will
bear, which often won't reach the people in need of
the stuff, is there
*any* winning strategy, or is it simply a case of our
being free to choose which poison to take (or, rather:
whether to suffer privation or *de*privation)?
I was wondering where you had "gotten to", since
I didn't seem to see any postings from you for many months
May we *all* prosper (somehow...)!
\bradmccormick
Harry
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Brad wrote (see below):
From today's (Sun, 26 Apr 98) New York Times:
There is a serious shortage
(in the United States) of a vital drug made from blood
plasma, which certain persons with compromised
immune systems need to live. With the drug, many of
them live normal lives; without it, they get all
sorts of infections (and, presumably, die, or at
least, as one patient says, it: "tak[es] my life
away as I know it" (p. 1). The
source of the problem is complicated (article
begins on Page 1), but it is all tied up with
issues of the "business case" for (i.e., against!)
pharmaceutical companies producing the drug. Here's
the reason I'm calling attention to this story:
"With lives in the balance, this should be
fixed," said Dr. Arthut Caplan, Chairman of the
blood advisory committee of Health and Human Services.
"But when you leave the supply of a vital substance
simply in the hands of the free market, and you don't
keep an eye on what is going on, you will wind up
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Harry Pollard (818) 352-4141
Henry George School of Los Angeles
Box 655
Tujunga CA 91042
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