I don't think you did. My comments nagged at me and, after examining my thinking, I realized why. My comments that rulesets require outcomes they are designed to (attempt) achieve, and that decisions regarding rulesets are made under market influences were not comments about markets at all. I am tempted to call them meta-economic statements, but I see that term is already used in a way I don't quite mean, so I guess I'll have to settle for calling them political statements.
In any case, as such they were off topic. My frustration (which we seem to share) with the glib treatment the assumptions made economists receive feeds into my frustration that reform and regulation never does try to achieve the ideal result that makes market economics, at least on paper, so attractive. This in turn adds to, or perhaps more accurately is a facet of, my broader frustration that as a species with no natural constraint but our resources and ourselves but with the capacity to envision and pursue complex outcomes, have no 'game plan'. Which I mean in a very loose sense. These frustrations, stronger yet than my frustration with the Philadelphia Phillies at the moment (if you can believe that... bleeping Yankees) got the better of me. So I apologize.
Thanks again for the post though. It was cathartic.
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Re: i'd like to build a staircase
Date: 2009-11-03 12:10 am (UTC)In any case, as such they were off topic. My frustration (which we seem to share) with the glib treatment the assumptions made economists receive feeds into my frustration that reform and regulation never does try to achieve the ideal result that makes market economics, at least on paper, so attractive. This in turn adds to, or perhaps more accurately is a facet of, my broader frustration that as a species with no natural constraint but our resources and ourselves but with the capacity to envision and pursue complex outcomes, have no 'game plan'. Which I mean in a very loose sense. These frustrations, stronger yet than my frustration with the Philadelphia Phillies at the moment (if you can believe that... bleeping Yankees) got the better of me. So I apologize.
Thanks again for the post though. It was cathartic.