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Rethinking Capital | Paul Krugman, Stephen Dorrell, Alex Callinicos

Philosophy For Our Times

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Is There Something in New Besides Planning Versus Markets?

Congress is controlled by people who believe that climate change can't be a problem ecause god wouldn't let that happen, or something like that. This leaves you with nothing on the table except action, which is top down planning sowell That can't possibly deal with a problem this complex. And there are plenty of areas, including health related issues, where, in fact, planning works better than markets. So the point i am to be open minded. Is there something in new besides planning versus markets? There probably is some scope for having organizations in which people are paid a salary,. so they're not capitalists in the sense that people are earning their income for selling stuff."

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