19 January 2019
Keynote
“What’s really interesting to me is that market fundamentalists will cite Adam Smith as if he was Jesus Christ but ignore that Smith connected ethics to economics. Before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments“. He argued that moral judgments based on fairness and justice were necessary conditions for functioning markets. Without them, you have corruption and unfair treatment.”
“Economic inequality is nothing more than a vehicle for exclusion that simply cannot be justified in any moral or ethical way.”