links for 2010-05-06

Samuel Brittan: A credo for a revived capitalism

SB: ""market fundamentalism", which had no real existence outside North America, is now well and truly dead. Let us take two sayings that embody it. First there is the rhetorical question: "What should you do if you found a $100 bill on the street?" The Chicago answer is supposed to be: "You wouldn't. Somebody would have picked up the bill long ago." The response presupposes a combination of extreme...