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Quotations 3/21/2010 at 1:16 AM EDT

Markets are not designed for the common interest.

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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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