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(...) The market will *not* provide that... read the text I quoted. Consumers are too focussed on the low price of oil and the Big Macs. (...) As the text I quoted states, the market can not be trusted to look after the environment. Are you really (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Add Turkey to this list. Once we had a female prime minister. Was it different? Hell no!.. Same level of corruption, if not more. Maybe the subject of a much more interesting discussion is: What would the world be like if real human beings (...) (23 years ago, 18-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) quoted this passage instead. "True, economists generally believe that a system of free markets is a pretty efficient way to run an economy, as long as the prices are right--as long, in particular, as people pay the true social cost of their (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ahhhh, things would be so much better! I mean, no war! Just look at Golda Meir...oops! Ummmm, ahhhh, that peaceful country of India, with Indira Gandhi....oh, drat, more war. Okay, that bastion of civility, England, and Margaret Thatcher (or (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Better, worse? Who can say. Same! No way!!! Vive La Difference`! ++Lar (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Watch it. I don't want another dull evolution debate to start again. After I typed by above text this morning, I found this interesting item by Paul Krugman. It is a little dated now, but it is still very relavant to this debate. Two key (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) SUVs! Hopefully, we are once again going to see evolution-in-action on them with high gas prices. :-) Bruce (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The closest we have come to a free market in modern times was Hong Kong before it was handed back to China. (...) Wrong. You have the cheapest pump prices. In environmental terms, what is the cost of cheap oil? Effectively, cheap oil means we (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I understand what you are saying. But the 19th century was not all that much better... it was just less organised. Remember, back then we had free market gems such as child labour and slavery. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Greetings! After an interesting discussion with my wife the other day, I thought I'd pose this question to this group. What would the world be like if women (that is women who did not behave like men) were the major leaders (presidents, prime (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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