Markets Are Good for a Country’s Pocketbook and Its Soul

Markets Are Good for a Country’s Pocketbook and Its Soul

Market capitalism is under attack from an all-too-predictable, de facto alliance. Progressive activists on the left and MAGA populists on the right (actually, they’re both populists in their dismissal of economic constraints) share a corrosive view: that capitalism is a fundamentally grubby and dehumanizing endeavor, merely a tool to be manipulated for other ends. The evidence tells a different story, however, one where markets don’t just create…