We spend as much time explaining the workings of the market as we do debunking myths and cliches about it. It seems that as we set the record straight, opponents of the market manage to pervert 10 others. Reed that was first published in the November 1994 issue of The Freeman.)Īdvocates of the spontaneous order of freedom and free markets are forever stomping out the fires of fallacious reasoning, anti-capitalism bias, and twisted history. It is a reprint of an article by Lawrence W. (This piece originally appeared on the Mackinac Center for Public Policy Web site on Feb. Set the record straight as people mark this centennial, we republish this piece Jungle" that Americans just don’t learn from conventional history texts. Soviet Union in 1921 and saying, "I have seen the future, and it works." Journalist" Lincoln Steffens, best known for returning from the Of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, was personally suckered by more than aįew intellectual charlatans of his day. Ironically, Sinclair himself, as a founder Given the book’s favorable publicity, it’s not surprising News source is like watching "The Blair Witch Project" because you think it’s a
Reading "The Jungle" and assuming it’s a credible Government then shifted from bystander to do-gooder andĭisciplined the marketplace to protect its millions of victims.īut this is a triumph of myth over reality, of ulterior Tainting our meat, and that the moral crusader Sinclair rallied the public andĬongress to act. They think that unscrupulous capitalists were routinely A century later,Īmerican schoolchildren are still taught a simplistic and romanticized version Generated, Congress passed the famous Meat Inspection Act. In 1906, in large part because of the firestorm Sinclair Meat-packing plants, was serialized in the socialist journal Appeal to Reason.ĭoubleday published it a few months later as a book. Upton Sinclair’s muckraking novel "The Jungle," set in Chicago’s One hundred years ago, in 1905, a great and enduring myth
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