From: | Antonio Rossin <rossin(at)tin.it> |
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Date: | Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:39:04 +0200 |
Subject: | Re: [WDDM] Direct Democracy in Switzerland and its Discontents |
l believe you should know what you are fighting against when you are
trying to achieve something like Direct Democracy.
Personnally l do believe there is a conspiracy, and have being trying to
put the puzzle together.
The fact that a few percent control the wealth of the world is no
accident.
After being thrown out of the IMF for whistle-blowing,
Joe Stiglits, ex-Chief Economist of that venerable institution,
received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001, for his
explanation of how "asymmetric markets" work. An
asymmetric market is one where some people know more
than others. Had the Nobel Prize existed in Aesop's time,
the fox that enticed the crow to speak so as to make him
drop his cheese would have easily qualified for it.
The man and his prize are emblematic of the
disorder in economic [& political, let me add] affairs
that has been spreading since /The Wealth of Nations/.
The past 200 years have increasingly seen what may
well be called "the Stiglitz paradox": parallel to the
setting up of university chairs, tenured professors,
prestigious textbooks, journals of great erudition, and
thousands upon thousands of doctoral theses (published
or not) not to mention the Nobel awards, the economy
of the real world, suffered in the flesh by countless men,
women and children, is a world where poverty reigns
side by side with opulence; unemployment rises its
ugly head side by side with the need of work; the gap
between the rich and the poor widens by the day;
and the scourge of war and terrorism goes together
with a diminishing freedom caused by the oppressive
intromission of the State in personal and family affairs.