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Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
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type="cite">On 11/06/2009, at 1:59 PM, Parminder wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Apologies for wrong posting
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meant for internal work on a presentation
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Interesting though; can you post a link to the presentation when you're
done?
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Jeremy, I have responded
offlist, but seeing that there indeed is a connection to the
industry-led governance model that we have been discussing, I will give
the complete quote of Lawrence Lessig preceding the one which I sent
earlier. <br>
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"But I think one big problem here is imagining
companies as the leaders in public policymaking. You know, companies
are in the business of making money. And if we begin to imagine a
world where we trust companies to do good public policy, then we’re
fools, because they’ll do good public policy when it makes sense
for them from a financial perspective to do it, but when it doesn’t
make sense for them from a financial perspective to do it, they
won’t."<br>
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What he says is simple and generally universally accepted. Adam Smith
said long ago. " </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
size="2"><span lang="en-GB">P<big>eople
of the same trade seldom meet together… but the conversation ends
in a conspiracy against the public</big></span></font></font><big><font
face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="2"><big><span
lang="en-GB">". What does it say about industry-led 'regulatory
systems'.<br>
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However the fact that such simple truths have to be re-asserted, but
still ignored by many, speaks of the new forms of power that big
corporations increasingly have to change our frames of thought and
action, in some very basic and oft hidden ways. It becomes difficult to
separate which actors, willy nilly, become agents of such new forms of
dominations, but an introspection on this issue may be useful. <br>
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parminder <br>
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