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This chapter might be titled “The Revenge of Morally.” With the exclusion of morality from the social sciences operated by Adam Smith and strictly enforced by economists today, the discipline is left powerless to forbid minor infractions. Economists are then condemned to magnify the problem and … call upon the infinite power of the Fascist or Communist State to\punish what other people see as minor infractions, if they are infractions at all. But then much more has been written about this “problem” that lies beyond our scope.
Adapted from Gorga (2019).
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Gorga, C. (2023). The Moral Problem: The Free Rider Problem. In: Concordian Economics, Vol. 1. Springer Studies in Alternative Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47320-3_8
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