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Free-marketeers generally believe some combination of the following: | Free-marketeers generally believe some combination of the following: | ||
* Government is not inherently something desirable. | * Government is not inherently something desirable. | ||
| − | + | * Government is inherently evil. | |
| − | + | * A society without government would be more free. | |
* [[All political power comes from government]]. | * [[All political power comes from government]]. | ||
| + | * [[Monopolies cannot exist without government]]. | ||
* All coercion originates from government. | * All coercion originates from government. | ||
| − | + | * Government is the only thing forcing people to associate with others they do not wish to associate with. | |
| − | + | ** ''(...which ignores factors such as non-portability of major assets such as land and housing)'' | |
| − | + | * Government has a monopoly on force. | |
| − | * | + | * A society without government would not have extreme wealth or power inequality. |
| + | * In a society without government, any entity that acted malevolently would quickly become unprofitable and thereby disempowered. | ||
| + | more free. | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
Revision as of 13:10, 14 December 2014
Free-marketism is a loose aggregation of beliefs that generally favor private enterprise over government, almost always advocating for "smaller" government or at least less government regulation of private business (laissez-faire economics). Some advocate for the abolishment of government altogether.
Terminology
An adherent of free marketism is called a free-marketeer or free-marketist.
Free-marketism that only advocates for "smaller" government, i.e. deregulation, is a form of minarchism.
Free-marketeers who advocate for the complete abolishment of government often self-identify as anarcho-capitalists (AnCaps for short), a form of anarchism, or as advocates of "Austrian economics", a reference to the Mises Institute.
Beliefs
Free-marketeers generally believe some combination of the following:
- Government is not inherently something desirable.
- Government is inherently evil.
- A society without government would be more free.
- All political power comes from government.
- Monopolies cannot exist without government.
- All coercion originates from government.
- Government is the only thing forcing people to associate with others they do not wish to associate with.
- (...which ignores factors such as non-portability of major assets such as land and housing)
- Government has a monopoly on force.
- A society without government would not have extreme wealth or power inequality.
- In a society without government, any entity that acted malevolently would quickly become unprofitable and thereby disempowered.
more free.
Links
Reference
Organizations
- Mises Institute: by far the most common source of free-marketist philosophy