Market Myths: Good, Bad, and Bazaar

The stories that hold up western* capitalism

John Ohno
Modern Mythology
Published in
11 min readSep 3, 2017

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kebba sanneh

First, a procedural note…

The truth value of a myth doesn’t matter, where efficacy is concerned. However, some myths have become so strongly internalized that they become difficult to identify as myths; they are mistaken for “common sense”. For most of us, the ideas underlying western*…

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