An interesting website I just stumbled upon, which brings together all sorts of otherwise separate ideas and dimensions of culture (like philosophy, force, and product branding) under the rubric of “changing minds“.
December 2008
Monthly Archive
December 13, 2008
December 1, 2008
Why is the “hand” of the market “invisible”? Because government (and, one has to say, the general culture and mass media) keeps their eyes shut. Here’s the “blind eye” quote for the day, from this news story:
The administration’s blind eye to the impending crisis is emblematic of a philosophy that trusted market forces and discounted the need for government intervention in the economy. Its belief ironically has ushered in the most massive government intervention since the 1930s.
The Blinded Eye 