Jay dedman wrote: >> > People who cry "free market", just mean they want market regulation >> > that benefits them. >> > Regulation is about benefiting all citizens. >> >> A free market has no market regulation (by definition). > > absolutely correct. > I put "free market" in quotes because all the proponents of this term > never truly lived by their own preachings. > Good old Uncle Milt is a great example. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_friedman > usually, its just deregulate...but make sure its just in the right places.
Milt and the Chicago School are OK but they are the weaker branch of the free-market advocates. If you want the real deal, who lack these inconsistencies you note, look to Von Mises and the Austrian School. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises>
