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Alan Kohler

Alan Kohler: Small government and free markets – ideology or greed?

A simple desire to pay less tax is part of the conservative mindset, which will make it more persistent even if Professor Stiglitz is right.

At a small event at the Productivity Commission last week, visiting Nobel Prize-winning American economist Joseph Stiglitz was talking about revolution.

He said the free market and small government ideology that has had America and much of the world in its grip for 40 years is over.

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