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Markets Promote Peace and Harmony
Submitted by Westernerd on Wed, 2012-10-03 03:00
"Markets would get the appreciation they deserve if the public better understood the many positive results that they bring, especially one benefit in particular: Markets help soften some of our darkest emotional tendencies—especially our proclivity to view the world in terms of “us” versus “them” and to succumb to that emotion by initiating violence against others."
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