Everything we mean by a free market depends on a functioning, sympathetic state—a state rooted not in selfish individualism but in a social sympathy so broadly articulated and institutionalized that every man is confident that he can make an honest deal with his fellow man.

Adam Gopnik on Barack, Mitt, and Adam Smith: http://nyr.kr/Pdx6Eq (via newyorker)

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