Dave Stockman has a schoolboy earnestness fueled by his belief that the Market, used in whatever sense or scale you want, can fix all things. A more old fashioned market fundamentalism than the neoliberal version that was taking hold just as he joined the Reagan administration. His version of Economics as the rightful and proper arbiter of most all things may be slightly better than Hayek’s neoliberalism which assigns the Market god like powers but functionally it isn’t any better.
No system, market or otherwise, nor any ideology is perfect nor perfectible because all systems will be corrupted. Because of course humans are corrupt. I am guilty of the same sort or earnestness in making that assertion I suppose, based on a wide seam of Christian derived moral philosophy, but those ideas carry the weight of a few thousand years of experience and thought, As opposed to the 150 odd year history of Economics invented in support of business corporations, who I might add, are not people
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