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The main topic of the article is the attitude of modern liberal thought to the role of the state in contemporary market economy. The market mechanism of allocation works to-day in conjunction with supporting and corrective policies of the government. In discussing this model present-day liberalism is contrasted with the neo-liberal doctrine. Liberalism perceives the role of the state as a co-regulator of the economy, whose intervention is particularly important with regard to equitable distribution of incomes. It is wrong to believe that liberalism is opposed to pro-social programmes. By contrast, anti-social programmes are characteristic of the neo-liberal ideology whose claim to represent the sole correct interpretation of economic theory is totally groundless.