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What can governments advised by neoliberals/adhering to neoliberalism do?
I guess I haven't read enough of Dodo's diaries.  why would they listen to neolibs?  why don't they find good managers instead?

With this practice, a merely loss-making state company can be run down into a ghost of its former self in a few years.
Are the people who ran the loss-making state companies neolibs?  
by wchurchill on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 05:42:15 PM EST
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Are the people who ran the loss-making state companies neolibs?

No. Of course, when you do public service, making profit is not the main goal. But those who made a more or less functioning public company into a dysfunctional mess are neolibs.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 05:54:12 PM EST
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The politicians in power are neolibs and wants to privatise railway, but lack public support for it. Thus they run the railway company in the ground to motivate the privatisation.

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
by A swedish kind of death on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 05:55:29 PM EST
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good managers

Another obvious thing to emphasize again is that what the job needs is not 'a good manager', but a good railway manager. Railways (at least properly run ones that serve both freight and passengers) are very complex systems, with lots of interdependencies, which a manager should know or his cost-benefit analysis isn't worth anything. Only the command structure of the workforce is hierarchic, but not 'production'.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 06:08:31 PM EST
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totally agree with this.
by wchurchill on Fri Apr 6th, 2007 at 06:43:05 PM EST
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