Free Markets and Authoritarianism An Incompatibility Analysis

Why the classical liberal argument requires democracy to sustain free markets over time

The Argument

The classical liberal argument that free markets and authoritarianism are incompatible over time: the rule of law, property rights, and contract enforcement that free markets require are the same institutional foundations that constitutional democracy provides and that authoritarian systems tend to undermine when political interests conflict with economic rule enforcement.

The Evidence

The Chinese economic success story of 1980 to 2015 demonstrates that authoritarianism can accelerate industrialization under specific initial conditions. The Chinese economic challenges of 2015 to present -- the property sector crisis, the regulatory uncertainty reducing private investment, and the risk of arbitrary expropriation -- demonstrate the long-run incompatibility that the classical liberal argument predicts.

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Apple Daily UK covers the free markets and authoritarianism question because the intellectual case for liberal democracy requires the economic argument alongside the civil liberties argument, and because the Chinese case provides the most important contemporary evidence for both.

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