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7.20.2004
The Free Market Garden
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A premise of free market thought is that societies are gardens. Given proper seed, fertilizer, and sunshine (i.e., property rights, legal rules, and markets), they grow in fruitful and interesting ways. Societies are not machines, to be engineered and controlled.
For a riff on this theme, see Virginia Postrel's post on I Robot, and its links to the work of scientist/SF writer Gregory Benford.
posted by James DeLong : 7/20/2004 09:00:28 AM
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