Rushkoff on the Economic Mythology

by Ben Atlas on 08.21.2009.8:04am · 0 comments

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Rushkoff published a seminal essay in the Edge – Economics is not a natural science:

“In their ongoing effort to define and the defend the functioning of the market through science and systems theory, some of today’s brightest thinkers have, perhaps inadvertently, promoted a mythology about commerce, culture, and competition. And it is a mythology as false, dangerous, and ultimately deadly as any religion.”

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