Tapsearch Com EditorWhat is this thing called Free Enterprise. (LINK)
July 15th 2008 18:13
Bizarre Politics Reports:
Free Enterprise system challenged
By Ray Tapajna - response to Free Trade smothers Free Entrprise -see last post.
The most difficult problem I have in any analysis of the Free Enterprise system relates to Liberatarians. It is a good thing to strive for civil liberties and I do know that less government is better than more, but there is also the vacuum we live in no matter what we say.
Those of us who believe in Free Enterprise, hold it as the best economic way in history so far. I was surpised to find Alan Greenspan in his book The Age of Turbulence feature the New Harmony working community. He was critical of the "utopians" who tried to form close knit working communities in a spiritual atmosphere. He used this as example to how we have to be content with the fact that human nature is flawed and we have to approach any economic effort with this notion. At the same time, he discounted the power of the Marshall Plan in duplicating success. He left the example of Lend Lease entirely out of his book. He does not even have the term "Free Enterprise" in the index of his book. Apparently there is a new kind of Capitalism that has replaced it.
Alan Greenspan may be right in terms of dealing with things as they are and not as we wish them to be in an ideal state, but at the same time, our human natures are set to seek perfection even if we never can attain it in this life.
However, Liberatarians and people like Alan Greenspan must undertand that what we got now is not sufficient in pursuing the common good. Work, labor and commerce must be integrated into individual societies and communities. Market forces can not take advantage of the weak. Market forces must be harnessed to the needs of stabilizing communities. There is no universal solution. The only solutions obtainable are those within given geopolitical settings. The world is too diverse to have a system where one size fits all. If liberatarians think the process lies in total free will to do what you want , the world is subject to seeking good things in bad ways. Let's face it. Government is only allowed to step in when everything else fails. This is a historical fact things quickly or slowly evolve this way. If we let the Darwinian theories rule our economic life, the maxim of survival of the fittest controls events. When a laisez faire practice gets out of hand, the only control left is for government to step in.
( Since this post is also related to the philosophical side of things, we will also post it at The Rationale Com Blog where we explore labor and workers as the stepchildren of philosophy and religion. )
The most difficult problem I have in any analysis of the Free Enterprise system relates to Liberatarians. It is a good thing to strive for civil liberties and I do know that less government is better than more, but there is also the vacuum we live in no matter what we say.
Those of us who believe in Free Enterprise, hold it as the best economic way in history so far. I was surpised to find Alan Greenspan in his book The Age of Turbulence feature the New Harmony working community. He was critical of the "utopians" who tried to form close knit working communities in a spiritual atmosphere. He used this as example to how we have to be content with the fact that human nature is flawed and we have to approach any economic effort with this notion. At the same time, he discounted the power of the Marshall Plan in duplicating success. He left the example of Lend Lease entirely out of his book. He does not even have the term "Free Enterprise" in the index of his book. Apparently there is a new kind of Capitalism that has replaced it.
Alan Greenspan may be right in terms of dealing with things as they are and not as we wish them to be in an ideal state, but at the same time, our human natures are set to seek perfection even if we never can attain it in this life.
However, Liberatarians and people like Alan Greenspan must undertand that what we got now is not sufficient in pursuing the common good. Work, labor and commerce must be integrated into individual societies and communities. Market forces can not take advantage of the weak. Market forces must be harnessed to the needs of stabilizing communities. There is no universal solution. The only solutions obtainable are those within given geopolitical settings. The world is too diverse to have a system where one size fits all. If liberatarians think the process lies in total free will to do what you want , the world is subject to seeking good things in bad ways. Let's face it. Government is only allowed to step in when everything else fails. This is a historical fact things quickly or slowly evolve this way. If we let the Darwinian theories rule our economic life, the maxim of survival of the fittest controls events. When a laisez faire practice gets out of hand, the only control left is for government to step in.
( Since this post is also related to the philosophical side of things, we will also post it at The Rationale Com Blog where we explore labor and workers as the stepchildren of philosophy and religion. )
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