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March 29, 2023
Critical Mass
How Big Business Hijacked Freedom
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway explain how industry groups foisted free-market fundamentalism on the American public and demonized the alternatives.
February 2, 2023
Utah Could Soon Require Schools To Teach That the U.S. Economy Is Globally “Superior”
A proposed change would teach kids how the free market “made America the most free and prosperous country in the world.”
March 20, 2019
The Problem With Trying to Be Like China
Free-market conservatives in the U.S. seem newly fascinated by Chinese state-directed economic policy.
November 23, 2018
Moral Holiday Shopping Is Harder Than You Think
Do any of us really control our purchasing choices and their implications these days?
July 17, 2013
From the Stacks: “Money and Love”
October 1, 2001

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