While I would wholeheartedly argue for personal integrity, character, and love as critical elements of human interactions and the human experience, the essay Everybody Loves Mikey by Mike Munger humorously and concisely reveals that what makes the world function from an economic perspective is the impersonal and unknown forces of the market – in essence the profit motive trumps love, but is nonetheless beneficial to society. This essay echoes and adds modern examples to concepts developed by Adam Smith, who is known to anyone who has begrudgingly taken Economics 101 as the author of the capitalist manifesto The Wealth of Nations and the coiner of the term the “Invisible Hand.”
What may be less well known is Adam Smith’s moral philosophy work in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, a book that explores the “impartial spectator” within us that keeps most individuals from straying too far outside the bounds of acceptable…
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