TGIF: Free Markets and the Pursuit of Happiness

For some time now I’ve thought that many people’s antagonism to the market is motivated not by moral or economic objections but by aesthetic criteria. (I discuss this in What Social Animals Owe to Each Other and here.) By that I mean they simply find market relations — involving private property, contracts, profit, competition, and … Continue reading TGIF: Free Markets and the Pursuit of Happiness