”Markets cannot take care of everything and… the developments in the social domains are lagging. Market economies generally respond well to effective demand, but they are considerably less efficient where it comes to responding to need. This inefficiency points to a fundamental shortfall of market economy philosophy: the failure to address needs. To soften negative impacts of the current era of market rule, governments will have to govern more to close the gap left by the unbridled belief in the effectiveness of market forces…
Governments are often no longer in a position to put the required regulations in place without exposing itself to various retributions. The vested interests are too powerful and the perceived need to keep the national economy afloat, even at the expense of future generations is considerable. As a result, much of the reigning economic and political practice is based on the immediate rather than the future for the serious political changes and short-term risks that effective regulation would require. It is for this reason that we cannot rely entirely on governmental regulation to solve the issues.”
