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http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/08/16/subsidies-in-everything/ The Visible Hand in Economics Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:00:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/08/16/subsidies-in-everything/#comment-42023 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:00:50 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=9499#comment-42023 […] and specific, unintended consequences pop up somewhere else, like a bad 1980s waterbed (eg as James wrote). But that is what we risk if we ask the gummint to regulate and intervene for all perceived […]

]]> http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2013/08/16/subsidies-in-everything/#comment-41938 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:00:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=9499#comment-41938 Between Shamubeel’s comment and your post the issue morphed from “whenever something goes wrong, the reaction is ‘what will the government do about it?'” to “why the Government is asked to fix every perceived problem”. These can be seen quite differently. What the government does in response to something can include knowing where it can play a positive role and where it can’t. Where the government can actually do the fixing is another question – and of course “every perceived problem” is actually an impossibility 🙂 But perhaps I should note this post is filed under Humour.

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