Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power. The kind of economic organization that provides economic freedom directly, namely, competitive capitalism, also promotes political freedom because it separates economic power from political power and in this way enables the one to offset the other

Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition (ed. University of Chicago Press, 2009) - ISBN: 9780226264189