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A market economy rewards putting land under campsites and horse liveries rather than under food, and that is the wrong thing to reward.

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capitalism Markets as a system rather than a market: what it is for, what it costs, and what people mean when they say they are retiring from it.

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  1. Chris Smaje Social scientist turned smallholder
    In my opinion, normal market economics is incentivising the wrong things. I think its preference for horse liveries or campsites over vegetables and other local food production will lead us to disaster

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