Defending the Free Market
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Defending the Free Market
| Full title | Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy |
|---|---|
| Author | Robert A. Sirico |
| Published | 2012 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Robert Sirico — Catholic priest, co-founder of the Acton Institute and a former left-wing activist — argues that the market economy is morally defensible and not merely efficient: free exchange presupposes and cultivates trust, promise-keeping and regard for the person on the other side of the trade, and a system that treats people as capable of choosing respects their dignity in a way central direction cannot. |
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List (March 2026), in the Capitalism, Morality, and Culture section alongside Weber, Henrich, Boettke and Rogan — the section that asks what a market order does to character and where its moral legitimacy comes from. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- Capitalism — the system the book defends on moral grounds.
- Socialism — the position the author held before writing it and argues against here.
- Individualism — the account of the person the argument rests on.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
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