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Explore how prices affect trade, push boundaries of human creativity through creative destruction, and delve into the ethical implications of market-based voluntary exchanges. Discover the imperfections in markets, their role in raising living standards, and the lessons they offer beyond other systems. What are your preferences in food, music, and leisure? Markets shape choices and preferences, transcending political, ethnic, and income barriers.
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ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF MARKETSMarkets Based on Voluntary Exchange [ Choices & Preferences of Individuals, not Force] • Your Preferences? • Food: Bananas, carrots, berries, hamburgers, … • Music: Pop, metal, classical, jazz, alternative, … • Leisure: Books, music, movies, theater, Disney, …
Markets Are Not Perfect Fraud, Greed, Luck, Crashes … Other “Systems” Not Immune
Lesson 1: Markets Raise Living Standards • Exchange based on low cost pushes out Production-Consumption Possibilities • For all incomes, political divisions, ethnicities, …