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Full Idea
Not everyone who favours the free market is a libertarian, for they do not all share the libertarian view that the free market is inherently just.
Gist of Idea
Libertarians like the free market, but they also think that the free market is just
Source
Will Kymlicka (Contemporary Political Philosophy (1st edn) [1990], 4.1.a)
Book Ref
Kymlicka,Will: 'Contemporary Political Philosophy (1st edn)' [OUP 1992], p.95
A Reaction
Illuminating. It would appear that exploitation is possible within a strictly free market, so it seems unlikely that free markets are inherently just (unless you don't acknowledge that 'exploitation' is wrong).
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| 5284 | Communism abolishes private property and dissolves the powerful world market [Marx/Engels] |
| 22599 | Hayek was a liberal, but mainly concerned with market freedom [Hayek, by Dunt] |
| 22600 | Impeding the market is likely to lead to extensive state control [Hayek] |
| 18641 | If people hold things legitimately, just distribution is simply the result of free exchanges [Nozick, by Kymlicka] |
| 18640 | Libertarians like the free market, but they also think that the free market is just [Kymlicka] |
| 9129 | I can buy any litre of water, but not every litre of water [Sorensen] |
| 20524 | Market prices indicate shortages and gluts, and where the profits are to be made [Wolff,J] |
| 20685 | No market is free of political bias, and markets need protection of their freedoms [Harari] |
| 23134 | A 'free' society implies a free market, which always produces predatory capitalism and inequalities [Gopnik] |