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Old 09-30-2012, 02:52 PM   #16
mhgaffney
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Originally Posted by nyuk nyuk View Post
How do you - and why would you - combine "social justice" with economics? Dare I say Marxists have tried this and it's been nothing but a disaster.
David Ricardo and Adam Smith were not Marxists! Indeed -- they lived long before the time of Marx. The classical economics they described is a far cry from neoliberalism. Were they alive today -- both would be speaking out against trickle down globalism.

Why? Because it doesn't work.
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