So, how is this liberal model, closer to the fact of the last seventy years in 
capitalist countries more democratic than the models used in socialist countries ? 
"Technocracy " is bureaucracy.  Galbraith endorsed technocracy, no ? The private 
corporations have technocrats/bureaucrats too, yet they claim liberal capitalism means 
some kind of anti-bureaucratic democracy.

CB

>>> Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/24/00 02:45PM >>>
At 02:30 PM 4/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
>i did *not* mean by "originality"  "creativity"  or "cleverness". I meant 
>that Krugman "repeats" his free market dogma... the "unoriginality" he 
>rediscovered before he became a pundit!

I think that it's unfair to dub PK a practitioner of "free market dogma," 
since he's a technocratic type. It's okay to deviate from the free market, 
in this view, if the experts say it's okay. (Of course, he and the rest of 
the Big Name School elite determine who the "experts" are. It's a lot like 
the bureaucratic variant of political correctness, where the elite 
determines what's naught and what's nice.)

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine 

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