Mike Konczal: Freedom From the Market: America’s FIght to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand <https://books.google.com/books?id=0aDLDwAAQBAJ>
The “market” is an abstraction. I’d tweak “made for man,” with “made by man.” Law is just the regulation of human interaction. The Mafia performs certain market functions, but no one would want the Mafia’s rules to govern all of human interaction (although for centuries it seemingly did). The worst “concept” that Conservatives have been able to peddle is that government is the problem. In reality, in a democracy, government is always the solution, because it is through a legitimate democratic process that the rules are made. Conservatives bellyache because they don’t want anyone but themselves to participate in making the rules. Communism and Libertarianism are just opposite sides of the same coin: one side puts too much power in the State and one puts too much power in individual property rights. Both end up being anti-democratic.
The “market” is an abstraction. I’d tweak “made for man,” with “made by man.” Law is just the regulation of human interaction. The Mafia performs certain market functions, but no one would want the Mafia’s rules to govern all of human interaction (although for centuries it seemingly did). The worst “concept” that Conservatives have been able to peddle is that government is the problem. In reality, in a democracy, government is always the solution, because it is through a legitimate democratic process that the rules are made. Conservatives bellyache because they don’t want anyone but themselves to participate in making the rules. Communism and Libertarianism are just opposite sides of the same coin: one side puts too much power in the State and one puts too much power in individual property rights. Both end up being anti-democratic.