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Environment & Energy

kristopher

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1. Would someone please explain to Premier Stelmach the fundamental distinction

Reply to benld74 (Original post)

Tue Jan 3, 2012, 12:59 PM

Jan 2012

...between:
positive economics - where the "free market" is actually a force that can be harnessed for good by governments that can see beyond next quarter

and

normative economics - where "free market" is nothing more than an ideological buzzword designed to hide naked greed?

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