FREEDOM AND RESTRAINT
i J. SCOTT’S. series of talks, The "Nature of Liberty (2YC), is the kind that demands to be repeated, and no doubt it will be in time. It just isn’t possible to absorb fully a complex argument at one hearing. His scripts are ‘very well written, though his delivery does its best to conceal this fact from the listener. I liked his explanation that Adam Smith advocated laissez faire because he believed it would produce a natural harmony in the economy; and that when it produced disharmony instead Herbert Spencer explained that this was just what an economy ought to do. Mr, Scott is concerned with all réstraints on freedom and believes that if you cannot do a thing (because you haven’t enough money, for example), you are not even theoretically free to do it. He concludes-and the conclusion sounds more commonplace than it deserves when civorced from his preliminary argument-that a _partly-planned economy like ours does not necessarily put more restraint on freedom than a free market. This is a comfortable conclusion and I was eomforted; but like most of us I inherit the puritan conviction that if one feels comfortable there must be something wrong. Which is why I want to hear his talks again.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 887, 3 August 1956, Page 22
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