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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 865, member: 57463&quot;]<b>What news on the Rialto?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>One of the values of chats and newgroups and such is that we do talk.&nbsp; New collectors who come to these discussions can ask about reputation and reliability.&nbsp; The only risk is that sometimes you get a lynch mob.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recomend McClosky&#039;s essay on &quot;Bourgeois Virtue&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Economics/ McCloskyBourgeoisVirtue.html - </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Adam Smith knew that a capitalist society such as</p><p>&nbsp;eighteenth-century Edinburgh could not flourish without the</p><p>&nbsp;virtues of trustworthiness or bourgeois pride, supported by</p><p>&nbsp;talk.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A potent source of bourgeois virtue and a check on</p><p>&nbsp;bourgeois vice is the premium that a bourgeois society puts</p><p>&nbsp;on discourse. The bourgeois must talk. </p><p>---------------------[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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