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“NAFTA Fever” and the Myth of Government-Created Free Markets

Critics of free markets claim that 1980s and 90s were near-pure laissez-faire when, in reality, the regulatory state didn‘t go away. The North American Free Trade Agreement supposedly was the apex of free markets. Think again.

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