Government Bureaus for Private Profit.

Autor: Schlink, F. J.
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Zdroj: Nation; 11/11/1931, Vol. 133 Issue 3462, p508-511, 3p
Abstrakt: Although the U.S. buying public has so long been accustomed to be humbugged and hoodwinked that it takes many forms of chicane in its stride as hazards necessarily present in any encounter with industry, it has yet preserved a touching faith in the disinterestedness a number of abstract authorities. The whole system of unrestrained diversion of governmental activity to business ends flows from an engagingly simple system of economic ideas held by both political parties. This may be called the "natural distribution of benefits" or "shower of economic grace" theory of political economy. The government's argument against free release of data of interest to consumers is that economic matters and the economic effects of its studies are outside its proper concern.
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