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…showed last 75 words of 1599 total…order and individual liberty. Individual political freedom was to be safeguarded by ensuring a liberal market order. A precondition to a functioning market order was the protection of key individual rights: rights to property, right to trade, liberty of contract, rules governing liability, etc. Ordoliberals arrived at a conclusion that the market structure is no longer suitable for perfect competition. If it is left alone, competition will destroy its own basics and consequently destroy itself.