A society is not a market. It is a political community.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
However, leaving everything to the market is not necessarily good for society.
There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.
The cold, commercial word 'market' disguises its human character - a market is a collection of our aspirations, exertions, choices and desires.
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
The market is good when the local people are in it and believe in it and support it. That's what I want.
We need to leave to the market and society what they can do well.
My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.
Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.
The market doesn't make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there's more than enough to go around.