As regular readers know (recall, for example, here; here, here, and here) I believe it should be widely known — at least since the work of Jill Gordon (1997) — that J.S.
It would have been odd for Mill to use a phrase like "marketplace of ideas". Even before he adopted a (highly abstract) form of socialism, he made it clear that the case for free markets was separate from, and weaker than, the case for individual freedom. The case for free markets was simply that economic theory (at the time) suggested that they worked better than the alternatives. This is in On Liberty, IIRC
It would have been odd for Mill to use a phrase like "marketplace of ideas". Even before he adopted a (highly abstract) form of socialism, he made it clear that the case for free markets was separate from, and weaker than, the case for individual freedom. The case for free markets was simply that economic theory (at the time) suggested that they worked better than the alternatives. This is in On Liberty, IIRC
Yes. This is one of several reasons why I was never convinced of the reading of On Liberty on speech