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Markets and morality

December 23, 2014 | By ETHAN BLEVINS

When the ghost of Jacob Marley bemoaned his eternal torment, Scrooge spluttered, “But you were always a good man of business, Jacob.” “Business!” cried the ghost. “Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the compre ...