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    It is not the case that It is more promising to appeal to people's self-interest through market exchange than to use state coercion as a means of organizing society.

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    • 1.Market exchange systematically produces public goods deficits, externalities, and monopolies that self-interest alone cannot resolve.
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    • 2.Rousseau and Rawls demonstrate that legitimate social order requires deliberate collective agreement, not merely the aggregation of private preferences.
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    • 3.The claim conflates voluntary exchange with just outcomes, ignoring that markets reflect and entrench pre-existing distributions of power and property.
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    • 1.Habermas and deliberative democrats show that coercion and market exchange are not exhaustive options; communicative rationality grounds a third path.
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    • 2.State institutions, when democratically accountable, can embody collective self-authorship rather than mere external coercion imposed on individuals.
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    • 1.Human beings make their own decisions and respond to circumstances, thwarting any systematic plans governments might lay out.
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    • 2.Governments are generally incapable of knowing enough to guide large numbers of people.
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    • 3.Government officials seek fame and power, believe themselves morally superior, and serve their own interests and those of well-connected businessmen rather than the public good.
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