Read entire article »Edward W Younkins
Markets & Morality (p 95), Volume 4, Number 1, 2001
No economic system can make people virtuous, it can only provide the occasion for virtue or vice. Morality requires the freedom to act immorally. Capitalism, the system that maximizes human freedom, cannot guarantee a moral society; however, freedom is the necessary condition for a moral society. It is only when a person has choice that he or she can be moral.
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