There is no such thing as "free market economists". That was halfly my point. They are statists in disguise. > Why are we more concerned that we stick to an id

There is no such thing as "free market economists". That was halfly my point. They are statists in disguise. > Why are we more concerned that we stick to an ideology - it's treated as a fundamentalist religion, treated as the solution to every problem and something with which any disagreement or deviation must be shot down - and not the people who are rich or poor, safe or suffering, educated or not, healthy or not, etc. You are imagining. I am claiming no such things.