Free Market Fundamentalist

A Free Market Fundamentalist is a fundamentalist that believes in fundamentalist free market ideology.

• AKA: Economic Libertarian Fundamentalist.
• See: Social Fundamentalist.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/market_fundamentalism Retrieved:2014-8-3.
  • … Ideas ascribed to fundamentalists include the belief that markets tend towards a natural equilibrium, and that the best interests in a given society are achieved by allowing its participants to pursue their own financial self-interest with little or no restraint or regulatory oversight.

2010

• (Oreskes & Conway, 2010) ⇒ Naomi Oreskes, and Erik M. Conway. (2010). “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming." Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
  • QUOTE: The billionaire investor George Soros has coined a term to describe this perspective: “free market fundamentalism.” It is the belief not simply that free markets are the best way to run an economic system …

    … The American belief in fairness and the importance of hearing “both sides” was used and abused by people who didn’t want to admit the truth about the impacts of industrial capitalism. Free market fundamentalists can perhaps hold to their views because often they have very little direct experience in commerce or industry.

1962

• (Friedman, 1962) ⇒ Milton Friedman. (1962). “Capitalism and Freedom." University of Chicago Press.

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