Assume The Worst About People And You

The Free Market Doesn't Exist. Every Market Has Some Rules And Boundaries That Restrict Freedom Of Choice. A Market Looks Free Only Because We So Unconditionally Accept Its Underlying Restrictions That We Fail To See Them.

Rich Countries Have 'kicked Away The Ladder' By Forcing Free-market, Free-trade Policies On Poor Countries. Already Established Countries Do Not Want More Competitors Emerging Through The Nationalistic Policies They Themselves Successfully Used In The Past.

Assume The Worst About People And You Get The Worst.

Self-interest, To Be Sure, Is One Of The Most Important, But We Have Many Other Motives - Honesty, Self-respect, Altruism, Love, Sympathy, Faith, Sense Of Duty, Solidarity, Loyalty, Public-spiritedness, Patriotism, And So On - That Are Sometimes Even More Important Than Self-seeking As The Driver Of Our Behaviors.

Between The Great Depression And The 1970s, Private Business Was Viewed With Suspicion Even In Most Capitalist Economies. Businesses Were, So The Story Goes, Seen As Anti-social Agents Whose Profit-seeking Needed To Be Restrained For Other, Supposedly Loftier, Goals, Such As Justice, Social Harmony, Protection Of The Weak And Even National Glory.