My economic beliefs are based on observation of reality. I don't know how you want to define "ideological" and "axiom," but I would not call them either. Certainly, they are not "axioms."
> Markets fail, they do not always work well naturally, and government is not always the problem.
Markets always work well eventually, and physical force (which is typically weilded by governments) is the only thing that can arrest that process. In the short term, certainly, there can be market disruptions. There are all kinds of ways to deal with those so they don't have to be problematic.
That's a religious statement, not a factual one. Please open an economics textbooks and find the chapter on market failures. You are talking ideological nonsense, you are not describing reality.
Edit: I checked your profile; you're quoting Ayn Rand; your mind is already fucked. I'm done with this conversation as it's impossible to reason with anyone who thinks highly of that insanity. The only thing Ayn Rand is a good starting point for is how to brainwash young minds with terrible writing and an idiotic philosophy. She's a joke.
To be clear, Ayn Rand didn't write about economics. So, you can't take my economics views as representing her views.
> your mind is already fucked. I'm done with this conversation as it's impossible to reason with anyone who thinks highly of that insanity. The only thing Ayn Rand is a good starting point for is how to brainwash young minds with terrible writing and an idiotic philosophy. She's a joke.
That's completely untrue. I'm a very intelligent and very well-educated person, and I agree with Ayn Rand. And there are a lot of people like me.
Ayn Rand's views are actually quite intuitively reasonable---and there is a lot of techincal philosophical work that has been done to show that they are true.
(a) there is an objective reality
(b) we can gain knowledge about it
(c) we should act self-interestedly in the pursuit of happiness
(d) we need freedom (in the classic liberal sense) to do that
Which of these views causes you to automatically dismiss me out of hand?
If you want to make a cogent criticism of Ayn Rand, I will tell you why I think it fails.
> That's a religious statement, not a factual one
It's not a religious statement. I realize that you are accusing me of believing certain things on faith, and I completely reject that. I am a scientist.
I definitely suspect we probably disagree on what "always work well eventually" means, though, which I left undefined.
> Markets fail, they do not always work well naturally, and government is not always the problem.
Markets always work well eventually, and physical force (which is typically weilded by governments) is the only thing that can arrest that process. In the short term, certainly, there can be market disruptions. There are all kinds of ways to deal with those so they don't have to be problematic.