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Professor Jennifer Baker on Understanding Modern Stoicism

The Daily Stoic

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Markets Are a Promising Way to Create Affluence in the World

Bob Greene: I think of markets as like a promising way to get us more, more affluence in the world. But then one has to decide how you are going to behave as an individual inside that system. He says Stoics help with notion that external goods, money, markets, they're all indifference to virtue just because it gives you a chance to pull away from those prudential calculations. "I don't control what's happening in Ukraine ... but I do control who I decide to do business with within reason"

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