The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The 'free market' is the product of laws and rules continuously emanating from legislatures, executive departments, and courts.
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
There's a difference between a free market and free-for-all market.
We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.
Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.
One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.
We need to move back toward a free market.
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.