<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Um, yeah. I don't any real world economy, aside from very small regions or short durations -- that would characterized as other than a mixed economy. The US is a mixed economy too, don't you agree? Merely saying "mixed economy" resolves little here.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">And the thing I was getting at<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR> was that the usual welfare state or mixed economies that are praised for having a huge government overhang in their economies actually have a much smaller one than is usually thought.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Dan</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Damien Broderick <thespike@satx.rr.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, July 20, 2011 5:47 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [ExI] Libertarianism wins again...<BR></FONT><BR>On 7/20/2011 4:23 PM, Dan wrote:<BR>> people will point to, say, Sweden and shout, "It works!" not realizing<BR>> that Sweden, overall, is far more market-oriented than most of the<BR>> world, despite its vast welfare
state.<BR><BR>This has been called, and theorized as, a "mixed economy" for more than half a century (and applies as well to Australia, fwiw).<BR><BR>Damien Broderick</DIV></DIV></div></body></html>