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Brad, Ray, Brian:
You guys provide wonderful
counterpoint to some of the overly dry, lean prose that a few of us serve up
here. This richness is highly nutritious, savory, and satisfying. It also
reawakens (in me at least) a glimmer of optimism amid my admitted gloomy
"Heart of Darkness", "The Wasteland", and "Apocalypse Now" literary
psycho-heritage. (Kurtz is in each)
Back to _The Efficient Society_, by
Joseph Heath. He claims that Hobbes, not Locke had it right re human nature.
Without sufficient rules of governance (laws & customs), market economies
can behave as did some eastern bloc ones once communism was toppled.(large
scale criminality, organized crime, high levels of corruption) Yet
without market economies, inefficiencies abound in producing well-being for
societies. The feedback that pricing gives to the production system is not
possible in command and control centralized economies. He fully acknowledges
negative externalities (costs that intentionally are offloaded on to the
commons) such as smells, particulates, soil/water pollution, noise... Next
section will be on "Big Business"
Steve
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the efficient
cause
... IS IT EFFICIENT? - William
Sheridan - JosephHeath THE EFFICIENTSOCIETY:
Why
Canada Is As Close To Utopia As It Gets Penguin/Viking, Toronto, 2001.
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