In this
recent Robert Reich interview he is asked about his new book Saving
Capitalism. Some think there's no problem with it as it is, other
say we need to get rid of it altogether. Reich thinks its the wrong
question; instead we should focus on how to fix it to serve everyone.
He emphasizes this is how the democratic socialist countries approach
the problem and we should emulate them. As to the so-called free
market his says this:
“There is no free market. And the
kind of battle that we’ve had between liberals and conservatives
for the past 40 years or 50 years, between do you trust the market or
do you trust government, is a fatuous and silly battle, because you
can’t have a market without government creating the rules of that
market. And it’s in those rules, exactly as you said, Juan—and
this is what the point of the book is—it’s inside those rules
that you find the most important issues that ought to be debated.”
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