Article: COLUMN: Capitalist free market becoming too dominant, inhuman

Martin Austermuhle
University Wire
07-09-1999
(Daily Collegian) (U-WIRE) STATE COLLEGE, Penn. -- The superior person understands rightness; the inferior person understands profit" -- or so said Confucius. The man was onto something, it seems.

Day after day, I have been sitting in my ECON 002 (Microeconomics) class, an internal struggle tearing at my mind. The struggle has little to do with the interaction of the supply and demand curves, but rather the concept of the free market itself. This may sound like another confused teenage rant, but I have slowly been growing to realize that the free market in which we place so much faith and authority is ultimately becoming the puppet master of ...

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