![]() Advocates of positive freedom viewed distributive justice as an important concept in creating the conditions required for positive freedom. ![]() Both Friedman and Hayek formulated conceptions of freedom that primarily revolve around the concepts of economic freedom and negative freedom. While defended a limited state role in securing freedom and the private spheres of individuals, Hayek did not condemn the human rights abuses or coercive practices carried out during General Pinochet brutal dictatorship. The key component of their respective concepts of freedom was labelled negative freedom (or ‘freedom from’) by Sir Isaiah Berlin in his Four Essays on Liberty. This chapter focuses on the concept of freedom as formulated by Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman, which was largely derived from the neoclassical economic approach. ![]() ![]() In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the concept that prevailed in the mainstream was largely defined according to the principles of the ‘free’ market economy. The concept of freedom is one of the central issues in philosophy and politics. ![]()
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