Ted Winslow wrote:
> The "essential characteristic" of capitalism, he [Keynes]
> claimed, was "the dependence upon an intense appeal
> to the money- making and money-loving instincts of
> individuals as the main motive force of the economic
> machine
^^^^ CB: This is incorrect use of the term "instinct". Money making and money loving are not instinctive , but "socially constructed" , cultural, historical. For 99% of human existence, in the early part of which period human instincts were formed , there was no such thing as money.
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