Re: Re: The market made me do it

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxx>]

> >
> >What is astounding is that the current ideology has managed to
> >equate markets with virtue.
>
> I think this is a bit inconsistent.  Narrow decision-making under
> "markets" should allow you to more easily track responsibility.  We
> are, after all, talking about numerous small-scale totalitarian
social
> groupings in which decision-making comes from the top down.  What
> precludes the tracking of responsibility is not the institutional
> form, but the secrecy under which decisions are made.
>
>
> Bill
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Tracking responsibility is one thing, bringing "them" to account is
another and bringing those who create the institutional forms within
which "they" make their decisions "in secret" is yet another. Whether
we can "break open" the latter via some radical take on information
economics; right to know laws etc.and whether that will allow us to
"work backward" as it were, in creating and sustaining models of
inclusiveness with regard to the representations of interests and
accountability in the production of social goods and services is a
very tough question.

Ian

"How can we be in if there is no outside" [Peter Gabriel]