http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic free-market Copyright 2006 Matt Mower. Some rights reserved. Squib/0.4.0.348 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002304.html Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:59:27 +0100 <blockquote> <p>To be absolutely clear about this, for the benefit of those critics and e-mailers who think that when libertarians refer to free markets they mean the existing socialist or mercantilistic political economies, I do not consider any regime, any State, or any economy in the world as now having free markets. Nor do I think that when a politician extols freedom or free markets and then signs a trade agreement or makes a World Bank loan that we are seeing free markets in action. I don’t think States are necessary to define property or enforce contracts or property rights, and I do not identify capitalism with States. For the sake of clarity, I state categorically that the actions of States are and must be in opposition to free markets. It cannot be otherwise since State actions invariably coerce individuals and move them away from their preferred agreements with one another. --- <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff81.html">Michael Rozeff</a></p> </blockquote> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002304.html