Why Free Markets Matter
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A free market is just people making voluntary exchanges. Woods makes an example out of the creation of a ham sandwich. Welfare and warfare undermine the natural economic harmony of large scale social cooperation - the free market. Interventions of all type have unseen negative consequences like impoverishment.
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