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- The Role of Markets and Governments in Pursuing the Common GoodIn a free market economy, competing in a free trade world, there will still be need for charity. We will always have the poor among us, even if only the disabled and the afflicted. Free trade can improve life, but it cannot make men perfect in a world cursed with sin. Free trade promotes the level of prosperity that makes charity possible.
- The Development of Free Trade in Europe - Hillsdale CollegeDu Pont and the other Physiocrats advocated the removal of restrictions on internal trade, the free movement of labor, the abolition of state sponsored monopolies and trading privileges, and the dismantling of the guild system, all of which advanced free trade and free market thought. Du Pont emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1799.
- Property Rights in American History - Hillsdale CollegeThe resulting market economy would increase national wealth and benefit all citizens with increased goods. Second, property rights have long been linked with individual liberty. “Property must be secured,” John Adams succinctly observed in 1790, “or liberty cannot exist.”
- Capitalism and Christian Ethics - Hillsdale CollegeFor example, free market rules allow profits and losses to reflect the discipline of the marketplace. Open competition tends to break up concentrated economic power. When market power endures in the hands of firms, often its because those firms receive some form of governmental protection, for example tariffs, licenses, or subsidies.
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