Quotation of the Day…
by Don Boudreaux
on May 29, 2022
… is from pages 107-108 of Eamonn Butler’s 2021 book, An Introduction to Trade & Globalisation:
Morality is an idea that can apply only to the actions of free individuals. A person who is forced to act in some way, even in a beneficial way, cannot be said to have moral agency. Free societies, free markets and free trade are therefore necessary for moral action.
