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Tue 07 Jul 2007Gospel preaches social message not socialismThere is no particular reason to assume that people are greedier in a market economy than in a socialist economy, write Philip Boothand Peter NolanThere is a parody of the market economy often put forward by priests in Ireland and elsewhere, caricaturing it as the arena of ignoble and unrestrained greed. That parody was exhibited in the straw man Father Tony Flannery put up and knocked down in his recent column in The Irish Times (June 26th). The moral framework of the market economy, as understood both by secular scholars and in the teaching of the church, is very different.