[Trombone-l] Cleveland Orch Trombone Article in newspaper

[Robert Holland]

Roger Hecht wrote:

> I do not believe that the free market by itself is the most efficient 
> or socially productive system out there. I tend to believe in a 
> mixture of systems, taking the best from various sources.

Free markets are good for balancing lots of things, like the cost of a 
trombone relative to the demand for one. Mature markets tend to have 
lots of distortions that wreck proper valuation. Free market systems 
are especially efficient at many things, such as funneling money to the 
rich (since they have the money and power to rig the system that way), 
but they don't usually serve the good of society, which leads to a lot 
of what many regard as simple injustice. All that said, I agree with 
you that a mixed system would be better than a free market system. We 
don't have a completely unfettered system, as we do have some oversight 
by, for instance, the FDA and EPA, but from a historical view, we're 
far freer now than in the past (since 1970, say).

Robert Holland, Publisher
Briar Music Press
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