In Defense of Commerce: The Liberal Case for Markets

October 5, 2011Erik Kain

I mentioned in my last post that nothing serves consumers more than healthy competition. This is the point of capitalism or, more appropriately, of free trade. It’s not to make some people fabulously wealthy while others just barely scrape by. Proponents of markets want to raise everyone up out of poverty and into prosperity where […]

Erik Kain

Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the editor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.