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Peter L. Berger

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

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Peter L. Berger means that a democratic political system depends on having a market-based economy, but a market economy can exist even under non-democratic governments.

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