oh, I get it. On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Robert Scott Gassler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My original point stands. Plannists would say the same thing as market > socialists. And look at what Varian and others say about the ability of > corporations now to price-discriminate almost to the individual consumer in > order to extract as much consumer surplus as possible. > > > > At 17:03 29/03/2008, Jim Devine wrote: > > > > Gassler Robert wrote: > > I seem to remember the market socialists saying that as computer power > increases socialism would be able to operate more efficiently. I also seem > to remember the market capitalists saying that with the internet capitalism > would be able to operate more efficiently... < > > huh? it's usually the plannists (advocates of USSR-style central > planning or of improved substitutes) who claim that computing power > facilitates the planning process. (The Chilean experiment was in this > vein.) "Market socialists," on the other hand, tend to take plans > with a spoonful of Hayek and see markets as a _substitute_ for > computers. However, it's likely true that even though the market > socialists would favor most high-tech stuff. > > It's also true that the "market capitalists" (as opposed to the "state > capitalists"?) like computers, but what excites them is the computing > power of markets (as in the "efficient market hypothesis"). > > > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own > way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > >
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