Essays on Privatisation

Milton Friedman believes that in a free society we must not forget that there are two types of freedom and they should not be confused. The proper role of the government is to consider these two ways of understanding freedom - which are freedom from coercion and freedom of ‘free of cost’- and help individuals reach their objectives, interfering with each other as minimum as possible. The government should create opportunities to help people achieve their goals, knowing of course that there is no absolute freedom in society. It is important to notice that for Friedman, the society ...

Introduction

In a landmark case, the judges concluded that for the success of a modern liberal nation, there must be a constitutional protection that ensures that the constitution promotes free expression “by establishing a marketable right to the use of one's expression, copyright supplies and the economic incentive to create and disseminate ideas”. Thus, by implication, copyright is supposed to be “an engine of free expression”. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the accuracy of the claim that copyright is an engine of free expression. The paper will critically assess the original position taken on copyright by the ...

The term Thatcherism emanated from the belief in a combination of free market policies and upholding family values. With the emergence of Thatcherism, the role of the Friedrich (2014) presented a convincing argument against the British arguing that they would create an oppressive society where the citizenry would not have freedom by abandoning liberalism and individualism. He further argued that socialism had its roots in exaltation of state above its citizens and central planning of economic policies. For him it was undemocratic to impose the will of a minority upon the majority though central planning. The centralised planning systems ...