The focus of this work is on freedom both as the basic end and as the most effective means of sustaining economic life and countering poverty and insecurity in the contemporary world.

• 本书关注的是自由，作者不仅把自由看作是当今社会维持经济生活、反抗贫困和抵制不安全感的根本目的，也是最有效的手段。