Lindblom - The Market System - Afghan Journalists' Committee

Persuading the Masses 225as are permitted by the rule of quid pro quo and the rightsof property. That is a kind of circularity. And they wouldlook cynically at the claim in Chapter 3 that the marketsystem is a peacekeeper. In highly inegalitarian societies,they might say, its peacekeeping, though undeniable, intimidatesand oppresses the disadvantaged. Elites have persuadedthe disadvantaged to accept from the market systemthe small shares so peaceably allocated them rather thanrisk a struggle and defeat if they were to challenge them.That again is an allegation of strong circularity.