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Magic of the Marketplace

By Arianna Huffington
Posted Thursday, May 21, 1998, at 9:41 PM ET

Hi Harry. I'm back in L.A., and just back in my office after a face-off with Dee Dee Myers moderated by Tony Danza at the Beverly Hills Hotel--at the end of which Roseanne, who happened to be having lunch at the hotel, stopped by. The conversation moved from the campaign fundraising mess to potty-training children--an easy transition.

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As for "the magic of the marketplace", Alfred Marshall, the great 19th century economist, considered what he called "economic chivalry" essential to free enterprise. Indifference to any principle other than a free marketplace is the surest way to guarantee its extinction. Sorry for getting on my soapbox, but I spent three years at the Marshall Library at Cambridge studying the guy, and all the other free marketeers who understood that economic freedom could not flourish without a moral foundation. Tell that to all the corporate leaders who flocked to the White House East Room to kiss Jiang Zemin's ass during Clinton's State Dinner.

Arianna