Market fundamentalists hold that the public interest is best served when people are allowed to pursue their own interests. This is an appealing idea, but it is only half true. Markets are eminently suitable for the pursuit of private interests,but they are not designed to take care of the common interest.

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Type: Prose
Context: Book
Source: Newsletter of the Rahway & Plainfield Mo
Uttered: 2000

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Richmond Shreve is a former Senior Editor at OEN, a writer, and an author of short stories. His "Lost River Anthology" (amazon.com) was released in March 2009. His "Instructor Candidate Manual" (lulu.com) is widely used by motorsport clubs to train (more...)

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