Re:Pushing baby booms to boost economic growth amounts to a ...
by ben_w on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:36PM
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Depends on the issue.*
I think you can make a good argument that collective action helped end slavery, I don't think you can make a good argument that anything other than market forces is bringing us the transition to renewable energy.
Where's lead in that? I don't know. I don't even know if it's the same answer for each of your three uses of lead.
Ozone was easy to get an international agreement to fix, because it already had economic alternatives.
* and if you want to argue semantics over "are economic forces anything other than the de-facto collective action of the agents in the economy?", which I'm sure someone has energy for, but I'm not that someone, so I'll acknowledge it and move on.
I think you can make a good argument that collective action helped end slavery, I don't think you can make a good argument that anything other than market forces is bringing us the transition to renewable energy.
Where's lead in that? I don't know. I don't even know if it's the same answer for each of your three uses of lead.
Ozone was easy to get an international agreement to fix, because it already had economic alternatives.
* and if you want to argue semantics over "are economic forces anything other than the de-facto collective action of the agents in the economy?", which I'm sure someone has energy for, but I'm not that someone, so I'll acknowledge it and move on.