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Fri 10 Oct 2008Dangers of worshipping false god of self-regulating markets
OPINION:The events of recent times require us all to reconsider the economic choices facing us, writes DAVID BEGG
FOR THE last 25 years we have been told that the twin phenomena of globalisation and the financial system underpinning it are unalterable. Free markets, we were told, are possessed of an inherent and irresistible logic and the state must not interfere. Economists, politicians, academics, commentators and business people of the neoliberal persuasion foreclosed all debate about the subject.
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