He lists what he calls the political marketplace as merely one of the four. The others are intellectual, economic, and social. I think Dr. Myers would agree that it is not the most important of the four, but rather that the four marketplaces, the four kinds of freedom together, make Taiwan what it is. All this of course begs the prior question. Both Taiwan and the Mainland share the 5,000-year history of Chinese civilization which, as Dr. Myers mentions, prescribes that society be ruled from the top in ways both wise and authoritarian.
Chinese civilization has plenty to teach about rightfulness, but little about freedom.
If and when we human beings come to believe that all men are created equal, then we see equality between those who have power and those who do not have power. And if we come to see that, then we naturally come to believe in the equality of property rights, in the equality of intellectual and political contenders, as well as in the equal right of society s components to exist. If all men are created equal, then each individual has the equal right to property in what Lincoln called the bread which one s own hand shall have earned. Property rights, free economies arise from nothing more and nothing less than that. Or as Montesquieu once put it, commerce is the profession of equals.