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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: economics and justice (fwd)
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>
> "The most important part of the case for economic freedom is
> not its vaunted efficiency as a system for organizing
> resources, not its dramatic success in promoting economic
> growth, but rather its consistency with certain fundamental
> moral principles of life itself.
>
> "I say 'the most important part of the case' for two
> reasons. First, the significance I attach to those moral
> principles would lead me to prefer the free enterprise system
> even if it were demonstrably less efficient than alternative
> systems, even if it were to produce a slower rate of economic
> growth than systems of central direction and control. Second,
> the great mass of the people of any country is never really
> going to understand the purely economic workings of any
> economic system, be it free enterprise or socialism. Hence,
> most people are going to judge an economic system by its
> consistency with their moral principles rather than by its
> purely scientific operating characteristics. If economic
> freedom survives in the years ahead, it will be only because
> a majority of the people accept its basic morality. The
> success of the system in bringing ever higher levels of
> living will be no more persuasive in the future than it has
> been in the past."
>
> - Benjamin Rogge
>
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