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John Paul II’s vision of a “free economy”

A free economy – one in which the market, not the state, is the dominant actor in economic life – is one of the three interlocking sectors of the free and virtuous society of the future that John Paul II outlined in Centesimus Annus, the other two being a democratic polity and a vibrant public moral culture. [1]