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I was thinking something similar recently.

There is a metaphorical pendulum swinging on any political axis you care to name. Has the economic policy pendulum reached the apex of its swing? Is Chicago-school, laissez-faire economics about to turn deeply unfashionable?

A good thing if it is, say I. The market is not always right, greed is seldom good, individuals do not actually make all their decisions in line with their narrowest economic self-interest, there are important things in life which cannot be expressed in dollar terms, and collective decision-making is often more rational than individual decision-making.

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