Everyone but the most callous of businessthralls has felt, at times, the same reaction as Keynes elicits here, against the ugliness of a world turned by free tr

Everyone but the most callous of businessthralls has felt, at times, the same reaction as Keynes elicits here, against the ugliness of a world turned by free trade and markets. Such arrangements of human desire (what else is a market?) do occasionally produce greatness and the sublime, but only with the mediation of a culture prior-to and underdetermined-by themselves, and amounting to nothing compared with the feelings of greatness and sublime that nation-states have proven capable of achieving: for example, the most ineconomic Apollo 11.