tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post6809804838374677582..comments2024-03-24T08:26:00.732+00:00Comments on photopol: Blogging against PovertyPólóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-16793774477865652472008-10-22T06:09:00.000+01:002008-10-22T06:09:00.000+01:00Great post. Nice new colours. Little Prince imager...Great post. Nice new colours. Little Prince imagery is cool too, small world huh?<BR/><BR/>Interconnectedness has never been more obvious. There is a new awareness and race of beings emerging. Maybe if we could link peoples pain... we'd be less likely to hurt someone out of sight..<BR/><BR/>irldexter :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-86855181615961050002008-10-15T22:27:00.000+01:002008-10-15T22:27:00.000+01:00Not just the USA. Remember Maggie.Yes, your explan...Not just the USA. Remember Maggie.<BR/><BR/>Yes, your explanation conveys the message. The market, but in it's place.<BR/><BR/>The market can be very efficient way or allocating resources but it should not be allowed dictate social values. They should be set at political level (local, national or global) and the market <B><I>used</I></B> to allocate resources within accepted parameters.<BR/><BR/>This is somewhere between the recent spate of rampant unregulated capitalism, where both USA and USSR oligarchs made off with the loot, and the failed system of central planning, which was misunderstood as "socialism" by both right wingers and commies alike.<BR/><BR/>I first came across the term "social market economy" in the context of German recovery in Erhard's day.<BR/><BR/>I guess I may have overcompressed my post but it could have just grown and obscured the essential point I was trying to make.<BR/><BR/>As an aside, I have always been impressed by Hans Andersens story of the Emperor's New Clothes, which Santy sent me in 1950 and Exaupery's Little Prince, which I came across in school.<BR/><BR/>Transparency is a much neglected virtue and, like liberty, it demands eternal vigilance.Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-54613572199022315632008-10-15T21:23:00.000+01:002008-10-15T21:23:00.000+01:00"It's back to the often despised "social market ec...<I>"It's back to the often despised "social market economy"."</I><BR/><BR/>(Despised by whom? The USA?) <BR/>And without forcing you to write as much again -- could you please explain "social market economy" for Joe Soap. I take it it's the 'free market' with safeguards supposedly built-in for the general good of all sections of the society.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com