MANDA, V.: K sporu medzi ekonomickou slobodou a ekonomickou demokraciou / Toward the Disputation Between Economic Freedom and Economic Democracy
Philosophica Critica, vol. 1, 2015, no. 1, ISSN 1339-8970, pp. 5–20
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Publication date: June 15, 2015
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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze some aspects of the dispute between modernday concepts of economic freedom and economic democracy. Economic freedom was highlighted in liberal thinking in the first quarter of the 20th century, especially in the works of L. Mises, in response to the formation of the modern liberalism, which sought in the interests of the welfare state to intervene in the economic sphere of society. The idea of economic freedom as man´s individual freedom was highlighted against the entrance of the state into the economic sphere. Advocates of economic democracy became active at the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century, especially under the pressure of the global economic crisis of 2008 and growing wealth inequalities. This paper focuses mainly on the conceptual differences associated with the concept of economic freedom and economic democracy. We are looking for an answer to the question why the concept of economic freedom excludes the concept of economic democracy, when it is clear, that from purely theoretical point of view, the concept of economic freedom and economic democracy have to be mutually conditioned.
Key words: Economic freedom – Economic democracy – Liberalism
DOI: 10.17846/PC.2019.1.1.5-20
Key words: Economic freedom – Economic democracy – Liberalism
DOI: 10.17846/PC.2019.1.1.5-20