Lindblom - The Market System - Afghan Journalists' Committee

192 What To Make of Itcan hardly imagine and that makes no sense. Societies needenterprises that are not free but are compelled, at the risk ofextinction, to respond to people’s wishes.The propositions in this chapter do not provide a completeanalysis of market-system impact on market freedoms.Given the various meanings attached to “freedom,” and forother reasons as well, the end of the road cannot be reached.We may, however, have captured fundamental connectsand disconnects between market system and freedom—gone some miles down the road.