Even Adam Smith realized that a capitalistic free-market economy would run amok if left to its own devices.
"This is your much vaunted free-market economy at work."
The heralded free-market economy had left them far behind.
The idea that a healthy free-market economy seems to produce numbers of people who behave corruptly shouldn't suffice to condone their actions.
Russia's newfound free-market economy and the resulting scramble for financial survival must be a shock to a lot of them.
The Ivory Coast, whose fast-growing free-market economy was once held up as a model for other developing nations, has fallen on hard times.
Moldova continues to make progress toward developing a viable free-market economy.
Some Baathists accrued wealth or property, sometimes taken from their victims, that could give them a leg up in a new free-market economy.
Once again, this is a Buddhist society with a nascent free-market economy and a nearly complete return to private property.
It seems to me $67 billion is a high price to pay for our love affair with a competitive free-market economy, inappropriate to the health-care situation.