Comments for Jack the Ripper and moralising capitalism at http://www.adamsmith.org , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.adamsmith.org Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:45:10 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/government/jack-the-ripper-and-moralising-capitalism-200806021479/#comment-347 The French economy is not significantly poorer than ours - it is about 2% lower tahn ours in 28th place compared to our 26th http://www.geographyiq.com/ranking/ranking_GDP_per_capita_purchasing_power_parity_dall.htm This is not bad on a 35 hour week. We may have more "free enterprise" - we also have more quangos & bans, less respect for technology (se their bridgesc, trains & nuclear power) & more politically correct bureaucrats telling us what to do. PC hypocrisy seems to be particularly an anglo saxon vice. For every Frenchman coming to Britain to get a job there is at least one Briton going to France to buy or build a house which our regulatory regime prevents them having here. We would do much better learning from them those things they do right rather than wallowing in our supposed superiority. So would they. - Neil craig Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:22:07 +0100 http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/government/jack-the-ripper-and-moralising-capitalism-200806021479/#comment-344 It wasn't necessarily 'unchecked capitalism', it was the miserable failure to impose Land Value Tax and re-distribute it as a Citizen's Dividend that was to blame. Notwithstanding that Henry George hadn't worked this out yet. - Mark Wadsworth Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:20:16 +0100