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Over the past three decades, the ideology of “economism” has captured the West. We have been conditioned to believe that thinking like economists is the epitome of rationality. According to that doctrine, what matters is the price and cost of everything, the cash one has in one’s account (less so the one in the pocket), the size of a nation’s GDP, the trade balance, the interests of the top 1%. To some extent, these economic metrics do capture reality. They do identify success for individuals, and success for the country as a whole. But only those who have been converted to the religion of economism also believe that these metrics reflect indisputable values. Christmas Market as teaser for the Shopping Mall Centro Oberhausen Percentage of X-mas sales in relation to annual turnover in the retail business:
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