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Elizabeth Anderson continues her attempt to vindicate liberalism (in roughly the sense that is used as an insult by those on the American right) at Left2Right by pointing to a distinction between freedom as non-interference and freedom as non-domination, I assume in order to claim that particular forms of market relation are dominating and thus a cause of unfreedom. Quentin Skinner, the Cambridge historian of ideas, has been going on about republicanism - in the sense of freedom as non-domination - for some time, and, as example of his take on the issue, for those of you with an LRB subscription, here is an article.

Bartlett's Bizarre Bazaar has an amusing story about the power of advertising.

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