Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
The economy is a collection of emotions.
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.
During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.
Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.
Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.
Every now and then, markets behave like schoolchildren. They overreact, they run around like crazy.
There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.
The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
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