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"When buyers and sellers are free to act, and neither fraud nor force is present, the price that results from their voluntary agreement is just, for justice in commerce consists in the freedom of exchange, not in the equality of the things exchanged."

— Molina, Luis de event 1593

From De Iustitia et Iure (On Justice and Law)

Context: On voluntary exchange as the criterion of justice in trade. De Iustitia et Iure (1593). Molina grounds commercial justice in procedural freedom rather than substantive equality, a key insight of liberal economics.

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