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Coercion: force or the power to use force in gaining compliance, as by government or police force.[1]

Coercion is used in Austrian economic thought in a negative rights sense. In this sense only an action can be coercive, and inaction cannot be coercive.


  1. ↑ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/coercion

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/coercion

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