>The exact argument of Lord Edward Lytton and Sir Richard Temple in
>not wishing to pervert "the market" by saving lives who would
>otherwise die anyway. Of course 50 million dead between the years
>1876-1899 because of the imposition of market forces is generally
>considered a "natural disaster", the result of drought rather than
>what it really was. "The markets" failures are every bit as
>spectacular as anything any central planners could be blamed for.
Oh, but those are the exceptions. The failures of the Soviet system, however, were the rule. Thinking things through is always easy when you know the right answers in advance.
Doug