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    "title": "The Social \"Operating System\" for Free Markets",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2011-04-04 02:12:49 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>It turns out that free markets are not just an absence of government intervention, or even a simple and clear set of rules.  Liberal market economies require a huge amount of what you might call \"software\" to run:  not just a good legal system, but respect for the law; not just a central bank, but consensus about the central banker's role; not just unrestrained trade, but a shared set of assumptions about what sorts of trades are fair; not just penalties but trust; not just anti-corruption laws, but a society that demands corruption cease, rather than attempting to use it to get around inconvenient but necessary rules.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/02/doing-business-in-iraq/71097/\">Doing Business In Iraq - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlantic</a></em>.</p>\n"
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