No country, no business class, has ever been willing to subject itself to the free marketthe enlightened statesresorted to massive state intervention to protect private power, and still do.Virtually the entire dynamic economy in the United States is based crucially on state initiative and interventionthe public pays the costs and takes the risks, and profit is privatized. That's very remote from a free market. Free market is like what India had to suffer for a couple hundred years, and most of the rest of the Third World.
Noam Chomsky