Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Article: Enough with the GOP's Faith-Based Economics | | AlterNet


Enough with the GOP's Faith-Based Economics | | AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/154835/?page=3

full information" (that is, virtually no uncertainty in the marketplace). Needless to say, it is an extremely unlikely - if not impossible - situation.[10] In a similar vein, the economist Ha-Joon Chang writes that, rather than the theoretical society of rational actors who are intimately in tune with their own economic self-interest, the reality is that, "People do not necessarily know what they are doing, because our ability to comprehend even matters that concern us directly is limited ..."[11]Borrowing slightly from George Orwell, we might more accurately say that all citizens are rational, but some are more rational than others.

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