ABSTRACT
The intimate relationship between product and producer prevents a complete withdrawal of the personality from the service demanded, although the substitution of a factual service for a personal service means increased liberty. Individual liberty increases with the increasing objectivation and depersonalization of the economic world. Money is a perfect equivalent for factual services, but a very inadequate substitute for what is personal and individual, and the factual relationships which it creates form an excellent background from which to differentiate and distinguish the individuality and its liberty. The increased liberty which is brought to the individual by the introduction of the money economy is also manifest in the new form of property which it makes possible. If liberty means a state in which the will can realize itself unhampered, an increase in possession will mean an increase in liberty. But this liberty is restricted by the characteristics and the properties of the objects possessed.
