Laissez faire Italian It is said that Jean Baptiste Colbert , Minister of Finance French during the reign of Louis XIV, had called together the most influential French merchants to ask them what could the government do to help. One of the most influential merchants, called the Legendre, the Minister said: "laissez faire
Nous", literally "let us do."
For some strange reason we are accustomed to thinking that capitalists and entrepreneurs are in favor of free trade and opposed to any kind of interference by the state. The idea is that capitalists and entrepreneurs in a market free from government intervention, can do the good and the bad weather, unimaginable profits, fell like a shark in a fish farm.
Far from it!
entrepreneurs, not all is clear, they are terrified - terrified I repeat - the free market. Let us repeat once again:
terrified. You know why?
Richard Cantillon was perhaps the first economist to theorize dell'entrepreneur the figure, describing it as having to cover costs "certain" shall bear the risk of selling at a future time at a price "uncertain." Entrepreneurs, which is the Italian translation of the word entrepreneur
, were those who direct the production and trade to bear the risk. Quite the opposite
degli imprenditori nostrani e mi riferisco in particolare ai grossi imprenditori che sono membri di Confindustria.
I “nostri” non dormono la notte pensando di vendere a “prezzi incerti”, sono terrorizzati dal pensiero di una concorrenza che possa far calare i profitti, di un calo delle vendite che possa portare loro delle perdite. Sopportare il rischio? Ma scherziamo?
Gli imprenditori italiani
odiano il mercato libero. Vogliono un mercato ben regolamentato dallo stato, dove siano
tutelati dalla concorrenza italiana ed internazionale (i dazi contro i cinesi per Dio! Servono i dazi!), dove siano
garantiti i profitti normal (privatization of the services anyone?), where a system of production quotas
raise the selling price (someone came to mind milk?), where the licensing
prevent the breaking of existing oligopolies (remember them strikes against the Bersani decree?) and where
subsidies and incentives to guarantee huge profits and socialize losses was .
Free Market? No. This is the philosophy of Italian corporatism
!
And who is the industry's fight against corporate master? What is the market that is become the symbol of state intervention? But the car, no!
History repeats itself.
few months ago, as scrapping incentives expired, car sales reached a record level again and all newspapers spoke of the automotive industry as the symbol of the recovery, the sector that had managed before the others in overcoming the crisis, which thanks to the intervention of the state was able to save thousands of jobs.
Of course, the last of idiots would stop for a moment and get two accounts. But if you change all the cars now and take advantage of the incentives, what will happen in the months following the end of same? Simple. As those who were willing to change the car have anticipated their decision, this means that in the months ahead there will be a period of low and sales are still lower than the level that would have been in the absence of incentives. If 100 families who wanted to change a car in July 2010, 50 have decided to bring forward the purchase in December 2009 to July sales will drop to 50 instead of 100.
Simple, no ? Apparently not. Pavan declares Bernacchi (remember that name is not there a central banker?), President of Frederick (a corporation toh!):
"Serving the President of Consiglio prendesse in mano la situazione. Un altro: "Ghe pensi mì". Da un lato rinnovando dei bonus pluriennali per svecchiare il parco auto e incentivare le vetture a basso impatto ambientale; in primis quelle alimentate a GPL e a Metano»
Eh certamente! Questa gente vorrebbe il futuro garantito per legge, con lo stato che, in un modo o nell’altro, fa in modo che abbiano sempre vendite record e profitti alle stelle. Incentiviamo le auto a basso impatto ambientale! Prendete la vostra automobile nuova di tre mesi e rottamatela per comprarne una a GPL o metano! Non fatelo per la Fiat ma per l’ambiente, per Madre Terra!
E infine, rullo di tamburi, il piagnisteo preferito dai corporativisti:
second Ferauto State introiterà about 2 billion less in taxes for various reasons, dealers must act on personnel costs eliminating about 15,000 jobs , which will be added at least 30,000 industries ...
Jobs? Mica
we want to suppress thousands of jobs! The government must do something.
been more than three hundred years since Legendre and Colbert exchanged those lines and now the role has reversed. Entrepreneurs are now running the government and ask for assistance, incentives and subsidies and the government can only respond: "You garantiscimi votes and then .... Lassa fa”
