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Book · 2011 · Business & Economics

The Illusion of Free Markets

Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order

by Bernard E. Harcourt · Recommended by 0 people on 1 podcast

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“I'm going to quote now from the book free markets and food riots. And this is talking about specifically the 1700s riots. But yeah uh food riots took several forms.”
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“going going back to the book free markets and food riots protesters did not rampage indiscriminately but focused their wrath on particular individuals and institutions whom the crowd held responsible for unjust practices typically it was not the producers or retailers of food but the middlemen”
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“here here's some free markets and food riots. Again, older parentalistic models operating at the local level and assuring a plentiful supply of necessaries at a low price were undermined by new national policies aimed at greater efficiency and market regulation.”
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“Uh here's uh free markets and food riots talking about it. Although the causes of the crisis run deeper, by the 1970s, many smaller nations began to feel the strains of insolvency as a result of a worldwide recession”

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