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The family and free market.(LOVE & MONEY)

"A princely marriage," observed the nineteenth-century essayist Walter Bagehot, "is a brilliant edition of a universal fact, and as such it rivets mankind." In the modern era, a political marriage is likely to interest us more than a princely one. While the royal family continues richly to reward us with the diverting antics of unemployed youths, retired grandmothers and wannabe princesses, it more resembles an exotic and morally chaotic soap opera--sex, infidelity and death--than offers a model for ordinary life. Unsurprisingly, then, we are more than ever likely to turn to our prominent political families as one guide--the "brilliant edition"--to contemporary relationships ...

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