I don&#x27;t understand why someone who &#x27;believes in the free market&#x27; must accept a binary position on &#x27;free&#x27; market. In experimental design, you&#x27;re supposed to produce tasteful granularity of measurement conditions to capture the breadth of a phenomena. Free vs. not-free is not very granular.<p>And given the immaturity of the state of economics relative to other disciplines, I don&#x27;t see why anyone should just have blanket faith in the free market. The &quot;freeness&quot; of a market is but one variable in what is possibly a million-factor model, a model that possibly won&#x27;t ever be developed in our lifetime.