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Oct. 12th, 2011|06:56 pm |
well, I really do not understand why one specific person in the post of Economy or Finance minister can kill the debate about the economic policy. after all everyone can debata whatever thing he wants in this country. the main problem, to my mind, is that there are too many "competent" debaters who do not have any understanding of economics at all.
what regards the specific minister(s): the voters who voted for the ZRP party (I didn't) should have known that their economic programme was developed by Vj.Dombrovskis. also the voters voted for and gave many pluses to Valdis D. and Vilks. If these two parties form the core of the government it would be very funny that they would implement different economic policies than promised before.
of course, there always is and should be place for a competent discussion (preferably not in the style and competence level of the "economist" R.Karnīte), and the government would do well if it listened to and participated in the discussion. on the other hand I do not see any important political reason for a democratically elected government not to implement the economic policies which they proposed to implement in their pre-election programmes.
after all (this is only my IMHO, well, as all the previously told), the economics is not really a science. it is a bunch of stories like "country A did thing X in the 19xx-ties and they succeeded; so everyone has to do the same". afterwards everyone does the same and 30% succeed, 30% fail and the rest do not change their performance in any way. to my mind, science means the possibility of a controlled repeatable experiment, which certainly is not the case in economics. |
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