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The Ethics of Competition and Cooperation

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The thesis of this chapter will be that ethical defense of markets by Austrians, including Kirzner, is in fact in large part (though certainly not completely) based on a flawed assumption of the equal possibility of all individuals to choose freely. It follows that a corresponding number of Austrian conclusions are equally flawed.

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Nell, G.L. (2017). The Ethics of Competition and Cooperation. In: The Driving Force of the Collective. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46839-0_5

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