Free markets ...

How do you feel about free markets? How would you like to test your views on some aspects of it? Check out Charles Wheelan, the Naked Economist:

The reality is that most people -- from one end of the political spectrum to the other -- find some market outcomes objectionable.

Markets don't elicit any kind of consensus. The most interesting public policy questions often involve market outcomes that people decide they don't like -- whether it's sweatshops, prostitution, cheap imports from China, or something else.

So how do you feel about markets? Take this quick quiz.

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And here's Mark Thoma on why markets are not magic.