Re: Climatology: a wonderful science

Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:
On Wed, 13 May 2009 18:42:13 +0000, James Arthur wrote:

Martin Brown wrote:
John Larkin wrote:
No, there's a lot of public policy that's downright destructive to the
bulk of the population. The press, the leftists, and maybe most of the
public don't understand where wealth and jobs really come from, but do
believe that to get something you have to take it from someone else.
The zero sum game view of economics. But it does have a point and in a downward spiral with deflation you can have something close to that.
It's not zero-sum to recognize there are productive elements,
that they can be destroyed, and that that hurts everyone.

Yabbut, I think that Martin Brown was just noting that zero-sum is the way
the "press, the leftists, and maybe most of the public" play it, which is
not the way reality works. And trying to fit a whole economy into a
zero-sum model is an example of "... public policy that's downright
destructive to the bulk of the population."

Thanks,
Rich


Ahh, I thought he meant John was preaching zero-sum.

Thanks!
.

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