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How big business sold America the myth of the free market

Volts

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The Myth of the Free Market

There are a whole network of sub myths that go into what they are. The individualist mythology is another one and we don't explicitly criticize that in the book. We were trying to tell you partly a story and partly a well-evident history and less rigorous philosophical analysis I guess you could say. Milton Friedman didn't rise to the top in a free market because the Chicago School of Economics program was built on the funding of a foundation, the Volcker Foundation which was run by Harold Loonow.

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