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The market society is the most radical solution to the painful ambivalence of life in common. A growing part of civil society looks to the day when it will be possible to create a network of contracts that, thanks to the culture of immunity, will regulate all human relationships, from health to education, from politics to family. In this way we’ll have eradicated the interpersonal vulnerability.

Nothing pleases us more than to observe in other men a fellowfeeling with all the emotions of our own breast; nor are we ever so much shocked as by the appearance of the contrary.

Adam Smith

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Bruni, L. (2012). Conclusion. In: The Genesis and Ethos of the Market. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137030528_12

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