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For the fact is that running a business is nothing at all like making macro policy. The key point about macroeconomics is the pervasiveness of feedback loops due to the fact that workers are also consumers. No business sells a large fraction of its output to its own workers; even very small countries sell around two-thirds of their output to themselves, because that much is non-tradable services.
This makes a huge difference. A businessman can slash his workforce in half, produce about the same as before, and be considered a big success; an economy that does the same plunges into depression, and ends up not being able to sell its goods. Nothing in business experience prepares one for the paradox of thrift, or even the inflationary impact of increases in the money supply (which is real when the economy isn’t in a liquidity trap.)…
Brad DeLong blog - WHY AMERICA CANNOT STAY GREAT UNLESS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS WE KNOW IT QUICKLY VANISHES,PART CXXII: HEALTH CARE MANDATES quote to:
Aaron Carroll:Lotsof people can’t fire their insurance companies | The Incidental Economist: Gov. Romney is not saying that he enjoys telling people that they no longer have a job. He’s saying that, when it comes to health insurance, if a company is doing a bad job, he would enjoy telling them to take a hike. Who wouldn’t?
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Here also another Krugman' blog mentioned -Who Fires Whom?
When organization change or re-engineering actually
not only destroying jobs but also creating jobs but the creating jobs are not
equal match as much as destroys as i.e. replacing human to technology, better knowledge management, outsourcing, processing, and also resources allocations etc…. so economists should be aware that you can not
runs a company in such inefficient way because sake of jobs- end of the day not only the single
business suffer but whole society suffer
that is equal putting! So if the company runs better way and more
export and more profit, - even eventually creating more jobs -so that end of the day pay more tax, so the government able to better spending to healthcare etc…So there!
When a surgeon front of patient at the operating
theater, the grave patient need to
operation otherwise she would die, the surgeon
doesn’t care whether the patients lose one leg or not, if his job is saving her
life, the surgeon is just do it.