The Perverse Economy: The Impact of Markets on People and by Michael Perelman
By Michael Perelman
From Adam Smith to the current day, financial concept has shortchanged the employees most vital to the functioning of human existence and provided skewed perspectives of shortage and extraction. Perelman indicates how this technique has produced a self-discipline within which its followers' types and representations of the area round them are so faraway from truth that carrying on with to abide by means of them could jeopardize either human capacities and nature itself.
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We have to live in hovels, not because we cannot build palaces, but because we cannot ‘afford’ them” (Keynes 1933, p. 242). For Keynes, the waste of unemployed human resources prevented the economy from creating the Promised Land. He seemed to take for granted the role of the natural resource base in providing the material comforts associated with a successful economy, apparently, far more concerned with the aesthetic aspect of nature. 44 THE PERVERSE ECONOMY Even so, Keynes must have known about the economic importance of the colonies in the construction of his Eldorado.
Instead, they follow Smith in attributing profit to human creativity. If the economy is indeed productive, as Adam Smith suggested, then those who are the most privileged might have some legitimate grounds for counseling the most disadvantaged that calls for redistribution of wealth and income would not be in their best interest. Instead, future economic growth resulting from the reinvestment of profits will be the most likely or even most efficient strategy for bettering the condition of the poor.
In short, the sort of problem that troubled Jevons is real, even if Jevons had erred in the specifics. Of course, Jevons’s prediction about future scarcity was not wholly accurate. In all likelihood, the decisive crunch will not be a scarcity of coal. Water seems a more likely candidate to me, but nobody can be certain. Ultimately, the combination of new technology and accumulated capital, which is supposed to allow the economy to transcend any particular scarcity, still depends on the availability of natural resources.