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"Madam President, there is an element of oxymoron in this debate and in its title ‘Consumer policy’. Consumers do not do the policy bit. It is governments that do the policy. Consumerism is what happens without state intervention.
There is something rather comical about the attempts of this Chamber and of national governments to leap on market mechanisms and try to conscript them to a statist cause, such as when we have reports saying ‘let us have best practice’. Best practice is something that spreads without anyone needing to make it do so by a process of an organic nature. When a bunch of bureaucrats get together and decree what best practice is, then, by definition, that is something different. It is the same when it comes to consumer rights and preferences.
People sometimes say that I have a dogmatic attachment to these free market models, but the other way round dogma means clinging to a belief in the face of evidence. On paper you would think that a planned economy would work much better than randomly allowing everybody to do their own thing, higgledy-piggledy. But the reality is that this random process of creative destruction has raised our species to an unprecedented degree of wealth. It is the opposite of a dogma; it is a pragma."@en1
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