Blaming the Free Market (Even Where It Doesn't Exist)

Blaming the Free Market (Even Where It Doesn’t Exist)

Tags: Bureaucracy and Regulation, Free Markets, Health, Price Controls

11/21/2023 David Gordon

Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton claims that the free market cannot provide adequate medical care. Of course, he goes on to describe government failure but calls it a free market.

Original Article: Blaming the Free Market (Even Where It Doesn’t Exist)

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