Publisher's Synopsis
DO FREE MARKETS ALWAYS PRODUCE A CORPORATE ECONOMY?What would a free market look like? Most people agree that totally freed markets are nowhere to be seen in today's world. States intruding on voluntary exchange and standing in the way of free association is commonplace across the globe. There are some markets, yes. But they are all, to certain degrees, hampered and regulated, or worse, outlawed. To a certain extent, they are un-free. So what do we make of the libertarian notion of completely and absolutely free markets? What do we have in mind when we talk about a "free market"? Is it more or less a vision of modern American capitalism and a corporate dominated economy or is it something radically different? Are there reasons to think a libertarian free market would look a certain way?
