Re: ECON: Re: Russia coming around?

From: Alex F. Bokov (alexboko@umich.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 15:54:45 MST


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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Michael M. Butler wrote:

> Randy Smith wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps socialism is the collective ownership and management of property.
> > That sounds about right...
>
> Could be. "It's certainly never been tried."

An optimal solution is not optimal if there is no workable migration
path from where you are right now. The fact that neither perfect
socialism nor perfect capitalism have ever been tried to the
satisfaction of their proponents should tell us something.

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