52.50% - Real capitalism requires fair competition — no player big enough to win through market power rather than merit; that's not socialism, that's the prerequisite for markets to work.
22.50% - The "free market" is a complex legal-institutional construct requiring rules about everything from who owns what to who and for what you can sue.
15.00% - Capitalism requires a price system to allocate resources and services.
10.00% - Price signals communicate more information, faster and more accurately, than any central planning system ever devised — centrally planned alternatives simply cannot replicate what prices do.
Capitalism cannot operate without genuinely competitive markets.
32.74% - Real capitalism requires fair competition — no player big enough to win through market power rather than merit; that's not socialism, that's the prerequisite for markets to work.
31.55% - The "free market" is a complex legal-institutional construct requiring rules about everything from who owns what to who and for what you can sue.
10.71% - We should define what makes a market: free
8.93% - Free markets have transparent information - the buyer and seller must meet with neither knowing something the other doesn’t.
5.36% - Everyone can participate in the market.
5.36% - Capitalism requires a price system to allocate resources and services.
5.36% - Price signals communicate more information, faster and more accurately, than any central planning system ever devised — centrally planned alternatives simply cannot replicate what prices do.
33.33% - Capitalism needs free markets to operate in.
33.33% - Capitalism cannot operate without genuinely competitive markets.
33.33% - Capitalism requires functioning free markets to operate as designed.
50.00% - Market socialism