Does the free market enhance liberty or restrict it? Would any other economic system enhance it more?
Friedman and Nozick on the way the free market allows people to do what they want to do. Cohen, on how, in the capitalist market, lack of money equals lack of freedom. Marx on the market as a realm in which we are playthings of alien forces. Will the planned economy improve on any of this in any respect. Also the idea that positive freedoms (living an autonomous life) may, for many people, be more available outside the formal economy than within it. The question whether capitalism or socialism is more efficient may interest economists, but is of no concern to a political philosopher. Discuss. A difficult but interesting question. What does it mean to say that one form of economy is more efficient than another? Is there some sense in which this is related to the sort of things that philosophers think about? Well-being, for example. Is an efficient economy always better than an inefficient one, or are there other factors that can be more important? If there are such other factors, does t
