http://bowblog.com/2008/08/21/george-osborne-revives-ideology/ Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:50:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://bowblog.com/2008/08/21/george-osborne-revives-ideology/comment-page-1/#comment-1584 Culture Vultures Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:43:23 +0000 http://bowblog.com/?p=1216#comment-1584 The market as a social regulator is an illusion. That's why firms deliver late IT projects, late public buildings, late exam results, and no education allowance without seeming to care. By the time they are found out they have made their money. And so few firms can compete for complicated government contracts that there is no real competiton. The market as a social regulator is an illusion.
That’s why firms deliver late IT projects, late public buildings, late exam results, and no education allowance without seeming to care.
By the time they are found out they have made their money.
And so few firms can compete for complicated government contracts that there is no real competiton.

]]> http://bowblog.com/2008/08/21/george-osborne-revives-ideology/comment-page-1/#comment-1580 Ivan Pope Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:10:51 +0000 http://bowblog.com/?p=1216#comment-1580 I'd also really like to understand how the market (whether out of control or not) delivers fairness. Personally, I always thought it was absolutely the role of the state to work towards fairness (but not, of course, to guarantee it) and the role of the market to bend with the wind of human desire. Osborne seems to have this arse over tit. I’d also really like to understand how the market (whether out of control or not) delivers fairness. Personally, I always thought it was absolutely the role of the state to work towards fairness (but not, of course, to guarantee it) and the role of the market to bend with the wind of human desire. Osborne seems to have this arse over tit.

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