Jay wrote:
>Charles, this "economic" world view -- nothing but
competition
>and consumption -- is at odds with the scientific
community.
>
>Do you really believe that public policy should optimize
>"competition and consumption"?
>
>If not, what should the goal of public policy be?
Competition gets us the best goods at the cheapest price. Is
there any opposition to this function of supplying people
with what they want?
Public policy has nothing to do with 'optimizing
consumption'.
That's for individual people to decide.
The state should certainly have a policy of ending their
existing curbs on competition and not adding any new
restrictions in future. Unfortunately, that policy won't
happen. The privileged pay them well to not free the market.
Harry
