Le libéralisme contre le capitalisme. Édition revue et augmentée

If the economic technique is difficult to comprehend for those who are not specialists, the principles on which it is based are accessible to all: What is wealth? How is it measured? How is it distributed? As soon as the confusion between liberalism and capitalism - which are radically different - is unveiled, then liberalism enables to think the economy differently. It is not by standing outside the economic field that we will be able to loosen the constraints in which it holds us. It may be by placing ourselves on its own ground, but by ensuring a real consistency between the economic rules and the values promoted by Adam Smith's original theory, which also happen to be at the heart of democratic principles. Democracy is the market of politic; it is the political system that is based on a market relationship, that of the free confrontation between a political demand and a political offer. Presenting liberalism as a space of neutrality does not amount to making it a definitive horizon. On the contrary, it is to consider that it can provide a common ground for discussion - neither capitalist nor socialist - from which we will be able to choose and no longer be subjected to the forms of the economy.