Indeed, I think free markets moderated by government regulation is the
idea behind most government policies of the Western world. And I think
that this idea is very good. Of course implementing it is much more
difficult than describing its basic philosophy and perhaps in actual
implementation so far we have either lost too much of the benefits of
free markets, or not protected the weakest groups enough.
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 05:23:22 -0800, "J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com>
wrote:
>From: "G.P." <gdotpdot@newsguy.com>
>> I cannot help hoping that
>> we develop an approach to economic and social organization that
>> retains most of the benefits of free markets, while at the same time
>> protecting the interests of those who are currently unable to take
>> full advantage of them.
>
>Sounds like the system used by the modern world, for example the US, where
>free markets are moderated by government regulation.
--- G.P. gdotpdot@newsguy.com
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