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The conclusion summarises the main points of this work. The book concludes that liberal institutions ultimately weaken their social groups in the evolutionary process of inter-group competition. Public choice theorists suggested that market liberalism could solve the problems of western liberal democracies. But free markets are not a solution to the problems of liberal democracy because both market and democratic liberal institutions rest on the liberal satisfaction of preferences, an ethic which hurts group evolutionary fitness.
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Faria, F.N. (2019). Conclusion. In: The Evolutionary Limits of Liberalism. Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31496-5_7
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