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Once You Realize That Trickle-down Economics Does Not Work, You Will See The Excessive Tax Cuts For The Rick As What They Are -- A Simple Upward Redistribution Of Income, Rather Than A Way To Make All Of Us Richer, As We Were Told.

Gore Vidal, The American Writer, Once Described The American Economic System As 'free Enterprise For The Poor And Socialism For The Rich'. Macroeconomic Policy On The Global Scale Is A Bit Like That. It Is Keynesianism For The Rich Countries And Monetarism For The Poor.

If We Are Really Serious About Preventing Another Crisis Like The 2008 Meltdown We Should Simply Ban Complex Financial Instruments, Unless They Can Be Unambiguously Shown To Benefit Society In The Long Run. This Is What We Do All The Time With Other Products-drugs, Cars, Electrical Products And Many Others.

Between The Great Depression And The 1970s, Private Business Was Viewed With Suspicion Even In Most Capitalist Economies. Businesses Were, So The Story Goes, Seen As Anti-social Agents Whose Profit-seeking Needed To Be Restrained For Other, Supposedly Loftier, Goals, Such As Justice, Social Harmony, Protection Of The Weak And Even National Glory.

All The Alleged Key Causes Of Soe [state-owned Enterprise] Inefficiency - The Principal-agent Problem, The Free-rider Problem And The Soft Budget Constraint - Are, While Real, Not Unique To State-owned Enterprises. Large Private-sector Firms With Dispersed Ownership Also Suffer From The Principal-agent Problem And The Free-rider Problem. So, In These Two Areas, Forms Of Ownership Do Matter, But The Critical Divide Is Not Between State And Private Ownership - It Is Between Concentrated And Dispersed Ownerships.