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Economic considerations versus social considerations. Is a society for its economy, or is the economy for the society for which it is the material life-support system? There is more to liberalism than just economic liberalism. The free market fundamentalists that have been singing the praises of price gouging in crises as "the medicine of the market" have either forgotten this, or conveniently overlooked it. EconoSpeakPrice GougingPeter Dorman | Professor of Political Economy, The Evergreen State College
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: free market fundamentalists, price gouging
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Economic considerations versus social considerations. Is a society for its economy, or is the economy for the society for which it is the material life-support system? There is more to liberalism than just economic liberalism. The free market fundamentalists that have been singing the praises of price gouging in crises as "the medicine of the market" have either forgotten this, or conveniently overlooked it. EconoSpeakPrice GougingPeter Dorman | Professor of Political Economy, The Evergreen State College
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: free market fundamentalists, price gouging
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Economic considerations versus social considerations. Is a society for its economy, or is the economy for the society for which it is the material life-support system?
There is more to liberalism than just economic liberalism. The free market fundamentalists that have been singing the praises of price gouging in crises as "the medicine of the market" have either forgotten this, or conveniently overlooked it.