To: A. Pole
The corporate market as it exists today was not the case when Adam Smith was around. If Smith could see the predatory practices and the open borders/free trade ideology that is so prevelent, he would be appalled.
26 posted on
03/10/2007 11:25:36 AM PST by
Clintonfatigued
(If the GOP were to stop worshiping Free Trade as if it were a religion, they'd win every election)
To: Clintonfatigued
Predatory practices? That and your tag sound ideally populist. I am sure that Smith would be on your side of the ideological debate, he was big on the idea of limits set for the consumer, ya know. And also big on government solutions to microeconomic situations and the regulation of its actors.
29 posted on
03/10/2007 11:42:42 AM PST by
LowCountryJoe
(I'm a Paleo-liberal: I believe in freedom; am socially independent and a borderline fiscal anarchist)
To: Clintonfatigued
If Smith could see the predatory practices and the open borders/free trade ideology that is so prevelent, he would be appalled. What were his views on slave and opium trade? What did he think about the condition of Irish peasants?
42 posted on
03/10/2007 6:37:57 PM PST by
A. Pole
(" There is no other god but Free Market, and Adam Smith is his prophet ! Bazaar Akbar! ")
To: Clintonfatigued
"The corporate market as it exists today was not the case when Adam Smith was around. If Smith could see the predatory practices and the open borders/free trade ideology that is so prevelent, he would be appalled."
I think more rcently we had an excellent advocate and spokesman for free markets. Milton Friedman. He was not appaled.
Sowell and Williams are two other widely read economists. Both not appalled.
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