Free Market Myth

Regulation is everywhere. Let’s choose who benefits.

The extraordinary financial collapse of recent months has been commonly described as a testament to the failure of deregulation. The events are indeed testament to a failure—a failure of public policy. Blaming deregulation is misleading.
In general, political debates over regulation have been wrongly cast as disputes over the extent of regulation, with conservatives assumed to prefer less regulation, while liberals prefer more. In fact conservatives ... Full Story »

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Kevin Barry
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by Kevin Barry - Mar. 5, 2009

Very interesting article explaining the nature of what is generally considered "the free market", and how it has largely been controlled through the years through government intervention (patents, copyrights, legislation). While interesting, it gets a little too side-tracked in explanations of some "examples", and thus takes a while to get to the thrust of the argument (and overall it could stand to be a little more concise). However, it shows a nice view of the big picture of what the government's role is (and could be) in how our economy operates. Recommended reading.

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