The 'market fundamentalist' charge against economists is unfair because economists themselves invented most market-failure arguments and actively seek counterexamples to their own views; meanwhile 'democratic fundamentalism'—the dogmatic faith that the cure for any democratic problem is more democracy, treating democracy as judge in its own case—gets a free pass.
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Bryan CaplanEvidence Quote
“an economist who said the solution to any problem of markets is more markets would seem probably kind of dogmatic”
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