tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694242867617825659.post3453289507403044635..comments2024-03-28T01:12:51.882-07:00Comments on The Pulse: Time to rethink this experiment?Ross Elliotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10328089395446040400noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694242867617825659.post-23610175463616398592012-02-12T15:51:16.483-08:002012-02-12T15:51:16.483-08:00The purpose of public policy is to act in oppositi...The purpose of public policy is to act in opposition to market forces. <br />Like most people, including many in government, you seem to think the purpose of public policy is to facilitate the market. That enhancing private interests is the most efficient way to enhance public interests.<br /><br />Every public act makes the market less 'free'. Read 'The Tragedy of the Commons' for a simple understanding of the consequences of a free market. A free market will have child labour, no social welfare, no public schooling, no public hospitals and notional roads with no kerb and guttering as free market developers previously provided them. Every social reform that you take for granted was a limitation on free market activity.Steven Liaroshttp://www.polisplan.com.aunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7694242867617825659.post-20489950271789287352011-11-28T15:49:25.740-08:002011-11-28T15:49:25.740-08:00Excellent summary as usual. However you underestim...Excellent summary as usual. However you underestimate the number of planning staff at the Sunshine Coast Regional Council. I am reliably informed that the Planning directorate now exceeds 270 staff and is still growing! This partly accounts for the other main change in the last decade where Council planners now see themselves as urban designers (notwithstanding they are not qualified) and cast the role of developers as simply groups who are supposed to deliver council planners vision (without the minutest deviation for things such as market reality, consumer preference or consumer flexibility.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com