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Episode 40: Philipp Blom

The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly

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The Ultimate Argument of Greed Is Good

Mandeville put it forward a very robust or slightly talented argument that really if there was anything to the economy it was only through greed. And also let me add to the list to his list also pirates pimps pickpockets parasites quacks sous years and of course you know traders dealers who were always in dishonesty. If you try to make a good profitable society out of virtue you are lost.

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