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Thread #142578   Message #3288731
Posted By: GUEST,Grishka
11-Jan-12 - 10:25 AM
Thread Name: BS: Fred Forsyth's Letter to Angela Merkel
Subject: RE: BS: Fred Forsyth's Letter to Angela Merkel
Smith's "business of common life" seems to imply infinite natural resources - which was not valid in his time, and is completely wrong nowadays. The same applies to the idea of fair competition at a completely transparent market, free from political power games.

I do not claim to be a better philosopher of economics than Smith was (in fact I do not claim to be any at all), but even the best ideas can be turned to utter stupidity by being taken literally or absolutely.