Reason Magazine
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Jacob Soll's Free Market tries to trace the history of free market thought from Cicero to Milton Friedman .
Soll, a professor of philosophy, history, and accounting at the University of Southern California , falls short of his goal.
He says the book is driven by the thesis that what most people would call free market thinking is silly and misguided.
Julian Zelizer : Neoliberals have supported using state power to expand and "encase" markets.
For libertarians, respect for individual rights is moral bedrock and violating those rights cannot be justified.
Zelizer says Soll has chosen to write his critics off as "agenda-driven journalists and commentators" rather than own up to his mistakes.
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