See highlighted text below. To follow up on the previous posting on “amoral
capitalism”, the tincture of mercury was being promoted by those with mercury
to sell, while a good blood-letting was being promoted by leech farmers trying
to generate a market for their products! The analogy is surprisingly tight! J
Cheers,
RR
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Some books I found worth reading
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674416833
The Making of
Michael Rawson
through miles of pipeline to provide clean water; dredged the ocean to
deepen the harbor; filled tidal flats and covered the peninsula with
houses, shops, and factories; and created a metropolitan system of
parks
and greenways, facilitating the conversion of fields into suburbs. The
book shows how, in
rival ideas of nature and competing visions of a “city upon a hill” to
the process of urbanization—and were forced to conform their goals to
the realities of
their battles for control over the city’s development were ultimately
recorded in the very fabric of
find the seeds of the environmental relationships that—for better or
worse—have defined urban
https://upittpress.org/books/9780822961475/#:~:text=Jacobson's%20Ties%20That%20Bind%20is,the%20course%20of%20two%20centuries.
Ties That Bind
By Charles Jacobson
In the early days of utility development, municipalities sought to
shape
the new systems in a variety of ways even as private firms struggled to
retain control and fend off competition. In scope and consequence, some
of the battles dwarfed the contemporary one between local jurisdictions
and cable companies over broadband access to the Internet. In this
comparative historical study, Jacobson draws upon economic theory to
shed light on relationships between technology, market forces, and
problems of governance that have arisen in connection with different
utility networks over the past two hundred years. He focuses on water,
electric, and cable television utility networks and on experiences in
four major American cities —
decisive roles in determining how different ownership and regulatory
arrangements have functioned in different situations.Using primary
sources and bold conceptualizations, Jacobson begins his study by
examining the creation of centralized water systems in the first half
of
the nineteenth century, moves to the building of electric utilities
from
the 1880s to the 1980s, and concludes with an analysis of cable
television franchising from the 1960s to the 1980s. Ties That Bind
addresses highly practical questions of how to make ownership,
regulatory, and contracting arrangements work better and also explores
broader concerns about private monopoly and the role of government in
society.
Bob
> Sometimes I liken this debate about the
internet, to 1906-era
> partisans arguing about the right cures for
syphilis. One side,
> intoning with great authority: "Tinctures
of mercury, yes a good dose
> of mercury, is just what you need... " and
the other side, insisting
> that "Leeches, leeches will help... all you
need is a good
> blood-letting... and everything will be
fine..."
>
> While those few that had embraced germ theory and were pointing at
> little squiggly things in microscopes as the root causes of so
much
> disease, were laughed at and ignored.
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