>As I understand it, an economy with powerful corporations and relatively weak workers could still satisfy the definition for 'free market'; Sure, this can be

>As I understand it, an economy with powerful corporations and relatively weak workers could still satisfy the definition for 'free market'; Sure, this can be true. > in other words, power dynamics are orthogonal to market freedom. No, they are certainly not orthogonal. One needs to only perform a simple thought experiment and increase the corporations' power to the point which constitutes a monopoly, to see immediately that they are not orthogonal. Do the same thing with increasing the power of unions and workers and you will again quickly leave free market territory. It's a bit astounding to make the (false) claim power dynamics are orthogonal to market freedom.