Re: "Socialist command type economy in Iraq"????

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L] "Socialist command type economy in Iraq"????

I had written:
> > "Free markets" are convenient slogans -- attractive to many
> > people -- but _in practice_ the US government has constantly violated the official
> > principles that go with that slogan.

Ian asks:
> Who decides the official principles that go with the slogan? Gov.
> economists and lawyers? Wall Street? The AFL-CIO? The Girl Scouts? A
> secular superstition posing as a social ontology.

ideologists such as Milton Friedman or Fred H*yek, along with a large majority of the economics profession, determine the "official principles." Who would define an ideology better than an ideologist?

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