Explain what freedom means, within an American industrialist business context, in light of the readings from Smith and Marx and any illustrative scenes or images from Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times you wish to include.
Much of economic theory (Adam Smith and Karl Marx, for instance) emphasizes freedom as the most important virtue of the capitalist system. Free trade, free markets, free choice, free speech, free association, etc. are all liberties that are common to both capitalist and democratic societies. Nevertheless, these individual and collective liberties frequently result in unintended […]