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Article: Laissez-Faire Fiction.(Review)
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- June 1, 2001
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Who says free-market ideology rules the world?
Free marketeers of the world can rejoice: The intellectual and political battle over whether the state must or should intervene in the economy is over. Neither governments nor intellectuals still question or interfere with anyone's right to buy or sell on any mutually agreed terms; no one receives orders about how they must deal with, pay, hire, or fire employees; no one taxes, subsidizes, sets tariffs, or regulates international trade; no one openly posits the benefits of state control or planning.
Professional partisans, think-tankers, and journalists in the free-market cause should be especially proud, ...