Terence Ball's Marketopia

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Terence Ball argues that in his vision of “Marketopia”, nearly all aspects of life are ruled by the market. Everything is for sale and everything has a price - the demand made and the price set by the market. However, Milton Friedman offers the different view that with free market and capitalism, all customers will receive correct information from the markets without any distortions introduced by government rules and regulations. Friedman seems more right to me because .
Ball insists morality has no place in this world so long as there is a demand. There is no such thing as “community” in Marketopia. He believes that it is the “systematic violation of a fundamental sense of fairness” (Ball that makes the concept of a free market bad. While

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