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Rationing. Book review of \u201cAny way you slice it\u201d by Stan Cox<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Preface. I can\u2019t imagine that there\u2019s a better book on rationing out there, but of course I can\u2019t be sure, I don\u2019t feel the need to find others on this topic after reading this book. As usual, I had to leave quite a bit out of this review, skipping medical care rationing entirely among many other topics. Nor did I capture the myriad ways rationing can go wrong, so if you ever find yourself in a position of trying to implement a rationing system, or advocating for a rationing system, you\u2019ll wish you\u2019d bought this book. I can guarantee you the time is coming when rationing will be needed, in fact, it\u2019s already here with covid-19. I\u2019ve seen food lines over a mile long.<\/p>\n

As energy declines, food prices will go up and at some point gasoline, food, electricity, and heating as well, all of them ought to be rationed.<\/p>\n

Though this might not happen in the U.S. where the most extreme and brutal capitalism exists.\u00a0 Here the U.S. is the richest nation that ever existed but the distribution of wealth is among the most unfair on the planet.\u00a0 When the need to ration strikes, economists will argue against it I\u2019m sure, saying there\u2019ll be too much cheating and it will be too hard to implement.\u00a0 Capitalism hates price controls. That\u2019s why \u201cpublicly raising the question of curbing growth or uttering the dread word \u201crationing\u201d in the midst of a profit-driven economy has been compared to shouting an obscenity in church\u201d.<\/p>\n

Republicans constantly want to cut back the affordable care act and the food stamp program SNAP.\u00a0 Companies keep their workforces as small as possible and shift jobs and factories overseas to nations with lower wages and fewer regulations…<\/p>\n

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Rationing. Book review of \u201cAny way you slice it\u201d by Stan Cox Preface. I can\u2019t imagine that there\u2019s a better book on rationing out there, but of course I can\u2019t be sure, I don\u2019t feel the need to find others on this topic after reading this book. As usual, I had to leave quite a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[11836,1760,11859,13863,15995],"class_list":["post-57684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-survival-2","tag-alice-friedemann","tag-book-review","tag-energy-skeptic","tag-rationing","tag-stan-cox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57685,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57684\/revisions\/57685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}