IS LIBERALISM A HERESY?
The seller trades his goods for what he really wants, payment, and the buyer hands over his money for what he really wants, the goods. Because they obtain what they desire, both buyer and seller gain more than they give. According to them, the marketplace trains us to think of life in terms of winne...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | First things (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2016-06 (264), p.39 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The seller trades his goods for what he really wants, payment, and the buyer hands over his money for what he really wants, the goods. Because they obtain what they desire, both buyer and seller gain more than they give. According to them, the marketplace trains us to think of life in terms of winners and losers, masters and slaves. Do we encourage liberalism to remember its birth in a market economy that drew ordinary people into habits of free action for the sake of satisfying desires, or do we anathematize it for its selfcaricature as a Gnostic-capitalist heresy? |
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| ISSN: | 1047-5141 1945-5097 |