[MD] Northrop and the failure of neo-conservative free market economics

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[Arlo] 
> the acceptance of the market of human slaves does not make it moral. 
. 




Yes, but you're avoiding the all-important 2nd half of the equation. 
Generally, voluntariness is not SUFFICIENT for an economic transaction 
to be moral, but it is NECESSARY. 





[Krimel] 
> In fact in the hierarchy of social values free markets were pretty low on the totem pole until Raygun. 
> the "free market" is a myth and always has been a myth. 



  [Platt] 

Mentioning "furnace" in the same paragraph with socialist should make you 

pause and think for a change. 





  the "market" has no bones about the buying and 



selling of human slaves, 

Northrop and the failure of neo-conservative free market economics the acceptance of the market of human slaves does not make it moral. 

[Krimel] 

Isn't the point that the market itself is amoral. It is the rules that govern the market; that inject it with morality. Aren't any such rules a limitation on the freedom of the market? It is clearly the role of government to establish such rules in-so-far as they reflect the will of the people. 



  

In fact in the hierarchy of social values free markets were pretty low on the totem pole until Raygun. 

the "free market" is a myth and always has been a myth. 



  [Platt] 

Mentioning "furnace" in the same paragraph with socialist should make you 

pause and think for a change. 





  the "market" has no bones about the buying and 



selling of human slaves, 

Northrop and the failure of neo-conservative free market economics the acceptance of the market of human slaves does not make it moral. 

[Krimel] 

Isn't the point that the market itself is amoral. It is the rules that govern the market; that inject it with morality. Aren't any such rules a limitation on the freedom of the market? It is clearly the role of government to establish such rules in-so-far as they reflect the will of the people. 



  

In fact in the hierarchy of social values free markets were pretty low on the totem pole until Raygun. 

the "free market" is a myth and always has been a myth. 



  [Platt] 

Mentioning "furnace" in the same paragraph with socialist should make you 

pause and think for a change.