Re: Starting Point

[Warren Mosler <mosler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- Robert Williams <vic93@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Warren Mosler
>
>  A common starting
> point can be that institutional structure we call
> 'taxation' is a non market originated, 'cohersive,'
> 'imposition,' etc.  The rest follows.
> Warren
>
> Your overall focus on "The Market" as a metaphor
> for the "economy"

Not.  Read it again.

precludes seeing the economy as
> anything but
> a market.

errant conclusion from faulty assumption

 Then you are astounded

Not.

to find that
> taxation is
> not market originated.
> Karl Polanyi suggested that there are
> many non market ways to make the same economic
> decisions that
> the market makes.(i.e. quantity, price and who gets
> what).

goes without saying.


>
> A more open definition other than "The economy"
> equals "A Market".
> would let you see beyond the Classical dead
> endmarket = economy.

more from your faulty assumptions.


> Polanyi considered taxation a part of the
> Transaction Mode
> he named Redistribution.

fine.  not my point.

warren

>
> Consider other Transaction Modes [Polanyi list 3 The
> Market,
> Redistribution and Reciprocity or you scratch my
> back & I'll scratch
> yours i.e. The mechanisms by which
> decisions of who, when, how , how much, where and
> why] are made
> and their implications as a starting point.
>
> Bob Williams
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