coerced treatment

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Wed Jun 13 09:36:38 PDT 2001



>I despise the "informed consumer" model. we're asked to research tax policy,
>medicine, land use laws, banking regs, phone companies, ad infinitum, before
>making a "consumer choice". gag me. there aren't enough hours in the day to
>be well informed about everything that might benefit us, and in a lot of
>cases people don't have the background knowledge to even know where to start
>on the research, though in some sense, the information might be "available".

_Consumer Reports_ isn't bad, and it is cheap. One of the big things that puzzles me is why its mindshare isn't greater.

Brad Delong -- ----------------------------------- Professor J. Bradford DeLong Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 delong at econ.berkeley.edu http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/ ----------------------------------- "In one way only can we influence these hidden currents-by setting in motion those forces of instruction and imagination which change opinion. The assertion of truth, the unveiling of illusion, the dissipation of hate, the enlargement and instruction of men's hearts and minds, must be our means..."

--John Maynard Keynes



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