On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:57 PM, John Vertegaal <[email protected]> wrote: > Like union representatives holding veto power, on boards of directors of > those "corporations that run the economic world"? If so I'd fully agree, but > I would call that social democracy in action, rather than applied Marxism. > I'm by no means convinced that a command economy, whether planned centrally > or not, is more efficient than what we presently have in OECD countries; > given of course the fair wage and financial control policies of a social > democracy. >
Interesting discussion. A natural question is why did central planning fail so disastrously in communist USSR and China, while WalMart and UPS are doing it so successfully? Is it because of market discipline? -raghu. -- "I'm an apathetic sociopath - I'd kill you if I cared." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
