Quotation on the Relation Between Economy and Democracy

Quote of the day:

Rain does not follow the plow. Political freedom, whatever the market evangelists may tell us, is not an automatic by-product of a growing economy; democratic institutions do not spring up, like flowers at the feet of the magi, in the tire tracks of commerce. They just don’t. They’re a different species. They require a different kind of tending.
-Mark Slouka, Dehumanized: When Math and Science Rule the Schools, Harper’s September, 2009