free market

Heard a local radio talk show host make this claim this afternoon. I was wondering what the JREFers think of it.

It has been suggested many times on this forum that a free market will solve certain problems in the US health care / health insurance system, but without much specificity behind the proposals. So here in this thread, I invite the free market proponents to flesh it out. In your proposed free...

dZL25NSLhEA Milton Friedman making his famous arguments against FDA and regulations in general. But i disagree, i think we need regulations, i am happy we have institutions that do test things, for example electrical components must meet certain standards for it to be allowed to be sold. What...

This anti-free-market strawman is especially pernicious because it is perpetrated by those pro-free-market crazies. :cool: The Fable of Market Meritocracy Shikha Dalmia in Reason

The new semester started, I´m back at Economics, and I´m getting into a teachy mood (among other things, to get my mind off the Virginia shooting thing). We´ve heard quite few times, predominantly from the Libertarian end of the spectrum, that the Free Market (tm) will do this or that, or not...