Well feel free to point out where a capitalist economy sprang up without a government. With links and all.
Because I can certainly do the opposite.
And here's the second time you're arguing against something I didn't say.
Something I didn't say.
For the THIRD TIME,
"both must work hand in hand, they are symbiotic".
I just can't get you folks to be honest. Why do you suppose that is?
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Oh yes, Mac, I am "government-centric" in pointing out that no government, no capitalism, but you are the other hand are what in pointing out this symbiosis?
Like, dude, so above everything, right?
You're "government-centric" because you're a leftwing partisan ideologue and create threads, like this, that promote other government-centric leftwing partisan ideologues.
I pointed out that Reich's piece is one-sided and you didn't like it. Not my problem. I actually can see the big picture, your ideology prohibits you from doing so.
And yes, you folks are beginning to convince me that I am indeed above most of the lies and nastiness here. But it remains a fascinating place to observe for me.
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A Critique of the Chicago School of Economics:
CHILE: THE LABORATORY TEST
Many people have often wondered what it would be like to create a nation based solely on their political and economic beliefs. Imagine: no opposition, no political rivals, no compromise of morals. Only a "benevolent dictator," if you will, setting up society according to your ideals.
The Chicago School of Economics got that chance for 16 years in Chile, under near-laboratory conditions.
Between 1973 and 1989, a government team of economists trained at the University of Chicago dismantled or decentralized the Chilean state as far as was humanly possible. Their program included privatizing welfare and social programs, deregulating the market, liberalizing trade, rolling back trade unions, and rewriting its constitution and laws. And they did all this in the absence of the far-right's most hated institution: democracy.
The results were exactly what liberals predicted.
Chile: the laboratory test
In 1973, Chile had experienced
hyperinflation that had hit 700 percent, at a time when the country, under high protectionist barriers, had no
foreign reserves, and
GDP was falling.
[2] The economic reforms were originally drafted by Chilean economists known as the "
Chicago Boys" because many of them had studied at the
University of Chicago. The plan had three main objectives: economic liberalization,
privatization of state owned companies, and stabilization of inflation. The first reforms were implemented in three rounds - 1974-1983, 1985, and 1990
[2] The reforms were continued and strengthened after 1990.
[3] Hernán Büchi, Minister of Finance under President
Augusto Pinochet between 1985 and 1989, wrote a book detailing the implementation process of the economic reforms during his tenure. Successive governments have continued these policies. In 2002 Chile signed an association agreement with the
European Union (comprising
free trade, political and cultural agreements), in 2003, an extensive free trade agreement with the
United States, and in 2004 with
South Korea, expecting a boom in import and export of local produce and becoming a regional trade-hub. Continuing the coalition's free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a
free trade agreement with the
People's Republic of China (signed under the previous administration of
Ricardo Lagos), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a
Latin American nation; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007. In 2010, Chile was the first nation in South America to win membership in the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, an organization restricted to the world's richest and best-run countries.
