Kunne ikke have sagt det bedre selv

Følgende er Delongs afsluttende svada, efter en lang og rystende skrift om hvorledes en Videnskabsmand oplever mødet med politik og interesseorganisationerne, i dette tilfælde om hvordan de prøver at skjule og negligere global opvarmning. Hele teksten er god og relevant for de fleste mennesker der har bare det mindste behov for at blive informeret om manglen på realitetssands blandt dele af de politiske cirkler.

Men følgende tekst, er den bedste formulering af hvordan jeg opfatter økonomi, jeg har læst. Selvfølgelig er den fra Brad Delongs hånd:

"Keynesians... those awful people who brought us things like Social Security, Unemployment Compensation, and macroeconomic stabilization policy. And all those government regulations about polluting the air and rivers those commies put into place are such an inconvenience for business. It was so much better when they didn't have to care.

I am not anti-market. When there is market failure and markets are broken, they need to be fixed. I want markets to work efficiently and that requires some mechanism to force economic agents to internalize the costs they impose on the environment.

People who deny this basic point, or refuse to acknowledge the science that would justify such actions, should not promote themselves as advocates for well-functioning, efficient markets."