{"id":41612,"date":"2013-12-17T22:34:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/andrew_ross_sorkin-how_nelson_mandela_shifted_views_on_freedom_of_markets\/"},"modified":"2013-12-17T22:34:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:34:05","slug":"andrew_ross_sorkin-how_nelson_mandela_shifted_views_on_freedom_of_markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41612","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Ross Sorkin&#8211;How Nelson Mandela Shifted Views on Freedom of Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you think about Nelson Mandela, you probably think about freedom \u201d\u201d free people, free country, free speech. What may be overshadowWhen Mr. Mandela was released from prison in 1990, he told his followers in the African National Congress that he believed in the nationalization of South Africa\u2019s main businesses. \u201cThe nationalization of the mines, banks and monopoly industries is the policy of the A.N.C., and a change or modification of our views in this regard is inconceivable,\u201d\u009d he said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, however, Mr. Mandela changed his mind, embracing capitalism, and charted a new economic course for his country.<\/p>\n<p>ed by Mr. Mandela\u2019s extraordinary legacy was his complicated journey to support free markets and a free economy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/mandela-shifted-views-freedom-markets-015848071.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you think about Nelson Mandela, you probably think about freedom \u201d\u201d free people, free country, free speech. What may be overshadowWhen Mr. Mandela was released from prison in 1990, he told his followers in the African National Congress that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41612\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,202,149,168,133,330,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-south-africa","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}