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We shall here define progress as the increasing control of the environment by life.
The Lessons of History
Will Durant
Influenced by a diverse group of economists, including Chicago School economist George Stigler and Friedrich Hayek, and ‘Virginia School’ theorists such as James Buchanan, __mainstream economics has adopted a perverse reading of Adam Smith which claims that because special interest groups can and do exert undue influence on regulators, it is better to have very little regulation in place than to have ‘captured’ regulation.__
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
Finance ministers tend to be closely aligned to the interests of the financial community, while trade ministers tend to favour the interests of the business community. Neither have any natural allegiance to the interests of workers, peasants or the environment, and rarely argue for policies in their name.
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