The argument "but the US doesn't have a really free market" sounds like the old "but the USSR didn't really have communism" argument to me
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Apart from parts of "new" europe and the UK, the US has the least regulated economy on the globe.
Aside of course from Somalia...
I think the US has regulations because at a certain level, a society needs them.
Totally free capitalism might work in Hayek's (or was it Friedman) famous Island, or in the society the founding fathers of the US lived in.
A bit like anarchism, which works just fine in a siberian village.
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