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Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 6 months ago to Philosophy
That businesspeople buy low and sell high in a particularly alert and advantageous way does not make them bad unless all trading is bad, unless when you yourself shop prudently you are bad, unless any tall poppy needs to be cut down, unless we wish to run our ethical lives on the sin of envy.
from page 153 of Deirdre McCloskey’s wonderful 2008 essay “Sacred Economics,” which is Chapter 6 in the 2008 collection edited by Sandra Peart and David Levy, The Street Porter and the Philosopher:
from page 153 of Deirdre McCloskey’s wonderful 2008 essay “Sacred Economics,” which is Chapter 6 in the 2008 collection edited by Sandra Peart and David Levy, The Street Porter and the Philosopher:
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