Posts Tagged ‘ market failure ’

adam smith on freedom and markets

Adam Smith, the greatest icon of free market theorists, has as Amartya Sen observed “had much smallness thrust upon him.” Far from arguing that markets make people free, Smith knew full well how markets could be hijacked by powerful interests. He also knew that government oversight was therefore constantly necessary to keep markets free. Deregulators…

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captains, masters, and the tyranny of chutzpah

With the slew of catastrophes wrought recently in finance, mining, oil drilling and elsewhere, one might have thought that industry leaders and titans of Wall Street might just have lost most of their credibility. To the contrary, some seem to have acquired greater prominence than ever before. How can this be? I do believe there…

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