Civil society is the pattern of voluntary interactions between individuals—both for-profit and nonprofit—so the market is a vibrant part of civil society, and its true opposite is social interactions based on coercion or threat (physical force or restriction of choice via taxation/regulation).

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Peter Boettke

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I don't see the market in being contrast to civil society but instead actually a very vibrant part of civil society whereas the contrast of civil society is our social interactions which are based on coercion

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Peter Boettke on Hurricane Katrina and the Economics of Disaster 12/18/2006EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:29:22 AM

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