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20 - Do Free Markets Make Free Humans? Interview with Jeffrey Bercuson

Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast

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The Moral Argument for Human Freedom, Self Realization in the Market

Hayek: Even an approximation of the pure leze fair that these people desire is quite radically incompatible with, um, the meaningful freedom of the vast majority of individuals. He says if our economy is so radically in a, in a egalitarian, that there are no such opportunities, right? If we're just yelling into the void and there's no meaningful sense that we are heard or that our demands are taken into account,right? Then what that means is that meaningful self realization, the, it's possibility has been negated. And I think it's also true on a political level, right? The, like, this sort of laissez-faire world unfolds itself as it

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