Craig Sanders wrote:
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 09:01:17PM +1000, Aryan Ameri wrote:
I know this was meant to disparage my comments, but you really actually hit the nail on the head. I would LOVE for some high-rise apartments to be built at the location of the Women's hospital (Children's is fine as well, but a bit further out, the Women's would be great). somehow, that doesn't surprise me at all.
As far as I'm concerned, the government has no business building and operating anything that a private business could profitably do, i've heard this said so many times as if it's an indisputable fact, but it's not - it's just anarcho-capitalist theology.
provide evidence and reasoned argument to back up your dogma. Yes indeed; but perhaps the problem is deeper than choice of political ideology; I would contend that : 1/ " Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand " is not just invisible but non-existent, and belief in it is a pathetic, irresponsible delusion. 2/ a science of economics in the sense of an objectively falsifiable collection of hypotheses concerning the exchange of goods, services and money is possible, necessary and urgently needed. For a fuller development of this idea see: The Invisible-hand, Market-failure and a Science of Economics https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0aOfcVEMVoKMzVjZjYyYzktNmJiMC00MzMyLWI3OTI...
regards Rohan McLeod