Re: Re: Krugman attacks the EPI! (fwd)

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine