Re: Gintis: TINA

[blaas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Wolfgang Blaas)]

>To Doug Henwood

Mixed Economies are more successful than "less mixed" ones in terms of long-run
economic performance. If you look at some of the very successful nations in the
period after WW2, than you will see, that in these economies (e.g. Japan,
Germany, etc.) there is a strong public sector, intervention, regulation and
so on. But for ideological reasons most of the time these economies are
simply called "market economies", and the extremely important role of the
state is being played down.

(For reference see also W. Blaas/J. Foster (eds.), Mixed Economies in
Europe. Edward Elgar 1992).


Wolfgang Blaas, Vienna


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