By Bruno COLMANT, Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium
Since the 1980s, we have been immersed in the market economy. This postulates that the allocation of goods and services, as well as their prices, is determined by the confrontation of supply and demand as established by the free play of the market. And what is the market? It's all the economic players. The market price, based on its permanent destabilization, is considered superior to any other valuation. This is because, in a perfectly fluid world, the price of goods and services corresponds, at all times, to the conditions of exchange. If the market gives a more accurate valuation of goods and services than public impulses, why bother with the obstacles imposed on its fluidity?
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