In fact it is essentially activity at the individual level. Not only does the citizen obtain these commodities from immediate neighbors but ensures that the neighbor producer produces it efficiently. These two propositions ensure that local production is efficient and hence can compete with production anywhere else. These propositions also fully support Vamadeva Shastri ji s correct observation that swadeshi is a dharmic concept. Two, the government plays an important role in all economic activity.
Free market can t exist without government rules.
These rules are administered by the threat of militiary power. In other words, consumer choices are fundamentally affected by government activity. The real world is made up of monopolies - it is not for nothing that large mergers are taking place every day.