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For fear of disagreement, we hesitate to bring our moral and spiritual convictions into the public square. But shrinking from these questions does not leave then undecided. It simply means that markets will decide them for us. This is the lesson of the last three de cades. __The era of market triumphalism has coincided with a time when public discourse has been largely empty of moral and spiritual substance.__ Our only hope of keeping markets in their place is to deliberate openly and publicly about the meaning of the goods and social practices we prize.
What Money Can't Buy
Michael Sandel
It might very well be that there is nothing on this earth which is not somehow affected by capital, but that is not the same as saying that everything has been subsumed under capital or that capital has taken hold of all dimensions of social life. The social as well as natural world is shaped by innumerable forces which do not derive from the logic of capital – not only because these forces have been able to keep the logic of capital at bay but also because capital is not a supervillain seeking to rule the entire world.
Mute Compulsion
Søren Mau
In an unequal society, giving the market the task of reallocating inalienable environmental rights inevitably results in allowing the wealthiest to **offload** social costs onto the poorest. *It is those who cannot afford to pay (in money) who will pay (in kind).* And this is part of a vicious circle where economic inequality attracts to it an environmental inequality that further aggravates the real misery of the dispossessed.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
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