POLITICAL IDEAS: Rebuilding an economy on family and community*

Although the Great Recession of 2008 now appears to be waning, it did bring to the surface old truths that many had chosen to forget: the business cycle has not been eliminated; finance capitalism is by its nature unstable; politically-connected corporations commonly escape market discipline; and there is nothing conservative about the “creative destruction” of a capitalist economy.
Indeed, a curious aspect of political labelling in America has been the conflation of the word &l…

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