"We have to stop allowing economics to be used as a trump card. Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society."
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Is Economics All There Is?, July 18, 2003
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Charley Reese
Charley Reese (January 29, 1937 ā May 21, 2013) was an American syndicated columnist.
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