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sexta-feira, maio 23, 2003

Livre Iniciativa vs Economia Planificada

Este artigo da TechCentralStation argumenta que o falhanço das Economias Planificadas não se deve somente à eliminação do factor lucro nas decisões.

Ao centralizar as decisões em detrimento da livre iniciativa individual o Estado elimina a possibilidade de o mercado testar várias soluções. Em vez disso é adoptada um única solução por um único decisor. Quando este falha, as consequências podem assumer dimensões trágicas.

The dynamic of a market economy is based on disciplined pluralism. Instead of the single voice, there is freedom to experiment. Most experiments fail: that is why centralized structures generally reject them, and they are right to do so. But in a market economy, people go ahead anyway. The market economy offers feedback that is honest, and generally rapid. Central planning structures, by contrast, were neither pluralist nor disciplined: the single voice determined the course of action, and that course was continued long after its failure would have been evident to any objective observer. It is the contrast between single voice and disciplined pluralism that explains why, in the end, the Berlin Wall was bound to fall
posted by Miguel Noronha 11:34 da manhã