It is also true that Friedman continued to profess his support for human rights. Two years later, he summarised his own political message as follows: 'Property rights are not in conflict with human rights. On the contrary, they are themselves the most basic of human rights and an essential foundation for other human rights.' On closer examination, however, it is clear that Friedman's argument in Chile was not that political freedom and economic freedom were 'entirely unrelated', as Letelier and Klein both argue. Rather, he argued that they were intimately related: property rights are the essential foundation of all other human rights, he contended, and a free market is necessary for realising the 'equal right to freedom'.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 324