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...And Keynes considered it a very bad idea to let such markets, in which speculators spent their time chasing one another’s tails, dictate important business decisions: “When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.”

I think to infer that economists don't have an "inside" and are morally bankrupt or just stupid is a bit dense and to be honest very rude. There are economists that study imperfect markets and irrational behavior. There are economists who study the impact or externalities and economists that account for those externalities in their cost benefit analysis. There are economists who study sustainability and environmental preservation. There are economists that spend most of their time studying the sociological aspects of economics. Unfortunately, these voices are not popular because their research does not provide easy, cheap solutions that ultimately make corpratists more money.

Do you think oil companies want to add the price of every dead seal or destroyed coral reef into the price of their oil. Of course not. If oil prices actually reflected the total cost of oil production we would be a nation that ran entirely on renewable energy because using fossil fuels would no longer be even slightly competitive.

We don't hear these voices on a national level for the same reason we continue to hear these bald faced lies in the health care refom debate. Rich companies have all the power in this country and they have the means to silence any one they want. As long as we have companies and politicians fighting for deregulation we will continue to see the same problems over and pver again.

rydi wrote:This is one of the best COMMENTS sections I've read in a long time. Start at 4 and move on (have to scroll down a bit), it gets better as you go:
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/09 ... ets-worse/