[PEN-L:33282] Re: Re: RE: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Murray wrote:
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> From: "Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>
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> Markets couldn't exist without the state, but common mythology (shared
> by many econo-dunderheads) has it that markets are "natural."
>
> Jim
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> Well, since we have no idea as to what is non-natural, we can chalk that
> up to insufficient attention to language.

"Natural" takes up about 14 columns in the OED. I don't think we can
ground ths argument in linguistics or semantics.

I didn't pry into those 14 columns, but I bet they contain abundant
(respectable) sanction for the linguistic acceptability of the
proposition that "Markets are natural."

Carrol