Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
Eric Posner, E. Weylamazon.com
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Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
The good news is that politicians will no more be able to dominate, suppress, and regulate the greater part of commerce in this new realm than the legislators of the ancient Greek city-states could have trimmed the beard of Zeus. That is good news for the rich. And even better news for the not so rich. The obstacles and burdens that politics impose
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