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I'm a democratic market socialist.
I believe property is a useful tool.
I believe that markets solve hard problems.
I believe markets are imperfect.
I believe that capitalism exists in a dynamic tension with democracy.
I believe that societies who simply attempt to maximize the sum of wealth are not ideal.
I believe in trade.
I believe that morality and law are not the same thing.
I believe that the amount of police, war, prisons and digging holes and filling them going on in a or by a nation does not add to the nations productivity.
I believe that my beliefs could be wrong, and bets should be hedged.
I believe 'majority governments' are dangerous.
I believe in paying as you go.
I believe in incentives.
I believe in negative and positive externalities.
I believe in the mathematics of monopoly power.
I believe in fettered democracy.
I believe that government should always function by the consent of the governed.
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