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Posted at 6:03 pm on January 30, 2011, by Wirkman Virkkala
Social causation cannot be simply drawn on a line, so public policy cannot be conceived in a one-dimensional fashion. See a goal? Find a means. Stick to it. No. It doesn’t work, because each cause has more than one effect, and the selected effect, the end, is not all that must be considered. You will often hear conservatives complain about progressives’ lack of understanding in this department, how those on the left too often have a one-dimensional view (more…) Filed under: Unintended Consequences Comments: Comments Off on Against the Simple Scenario of Rescue
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"[T]he whole of economics can be reduced to a single lesson, and that lesson can be reduced to a single sentence. The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."