20 - Do Free Markets Make Free Humans? Interview with Jeffrey Bercuson
Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast
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Is There a Pro-Marker Argument?
In Machiavelli and Hobbes, they're sort of like this sense that if we just let people accumulate that property and live a quiet life and get rich. But the story then changes with Locke, right, who says that a market society is more likely to be a society with secure rights. The really sort of meaty part of the book is when we shift from this sort of practical or pragmatic Attitude towards the market towards a much more robust defense of it,.
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