On a recent edition Coffee & Markets , a series of brief morning podcasts on politics and the marketplace, Francis Cianfrocca and Ben Domenech discuss the new the First Things article by Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps on the nature of economic freedom, the virtues of capitalism, and the moral dimension at the heart of human innovation.
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