Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

1-9-2016

SSRN Discipline

Legal Scholarship Network; PRN Subject Matter eJournals; Philosophy Research Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Humanities Network; Political Science Network

Abstract

Rodrigo drops in on "the professor" to discuss a problem that arose in one of his LLM classes Rodrigo wrote a seminar paper that won a national prize for student writing but his professor did not like it and suggested a major rewrite His paper proposed a way to reconcile the ageold conflict between socialism and capitalism the two major competing modes of economic organization in the world Essentially Rodrigo suggests that societies should socialize subsidize the caregiving sector completely while other sectors such as those devoted to consumer products like clothing or electronics would be relegated to competitive dogeatdog capitalism The nurturing sector including teachers health care givers and social workers would not need to compete with each other but the productive sector would This would draw out the best energies and inclinations of both sets of workers and allow synergies between them such as incentivizing the competitive sector to vie for contracts to provide the best teaching materials and electronics for the public schools which would otherwise be financed entirely by the state The two discuss how to placate the professor who wanted a more prosaic paper than the one Rodrigo submitted

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