The Biblical Ethic of Free Market Exchange

Despite the calls of ‘Christian Socialists’ to bring market forces under control state and its temporal power, supreme text Christianity not only supports existence free markets, it also prescribes their operation as normal, God-given means social interaction. Both Old New Testaments Bible provide an ethical defense itself, division labor, principle voluntary exchange, condemnation force, fraud, coercion. As introduction force into society exchange is always ever policy interventionists socialists, aim this paper oppose those doctrines on grounds Biblical ethics. This dismiss pragmatic, historic, or epistemological failings interventionists. The dismantling socialism these has been thorough devastating provided by Austrian school economics. work provides a moral ground that dismisses socialist agenda, but adds already robust body rejects interventions due inefficiencies, failed states, pretense knowledge.