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Re:Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy by wtfrmyinitials on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @06:23PM (#20349533)
Purely competitive, purely monopolistic, monopolistic-competitive, and oligopolistic are terms to describe how a market behaves, not the regulatory environment the market exists within. A "free market" is a regulatory environment and not a market behavior.
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Re:Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy by SantalBlush on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:01AM (#20351402)
Economists still typically don't use the term "free market," because it's loaded and often inaccurate.

"Unregulated" would be preferable, I think.

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Re:Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy by jacques_chester on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @06:27PM (#20349561)
That's pretty much my point, yes.
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