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Re: Economic theory and politics.

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Originally Posted by Ambiguous View Post
Unfortunately the incremental nature of government is not hands-off. Just as an industry will try to keep the government money it depends on, the government will try to keep the control it's used to having over the industry.

It's difficult to achieve a lasseiz-faire economy under the guidance of government regulation.
It's impossible to achieve with regulation, if you're talking about a truly laissez-faire economy. But's that achievement is not necessarily the goal of the policies I suggested anyway; the goal is to reduce the social costs of the transition from command to market.
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