Aug 11, 2010

No le hagan el jueguito a la izquierda

No se trata de “capitalismo de estado”, sino de corporativismo liso y llano. Si la planificación centralizada de la economía fuera más eficiente que la economía de mercado, el colapso de 1989 hubiera sido de EEUU y la Unión Soviética estaría a la vanguardia de la humanidad:

The intellectual firepower of this administration may be high. But so was the intellectual firepower of the postwar British Labour governments that nationalized steel and auto companies and the railroads.

That didn’t turn out so well, and for decades the British economy lagged behind those of America and its European neighbors. State capitalism has been tried before. It didn’t work.

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