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>A prerequisite to a free market is perfect information.

So there are no free markets? Perfect information is just a theoretical benchmark used by economists, not something you'll ever encounter in real life.

>Insider information makes markets imperfect, thus losing the sort of holy grail property of getting the "right" price for a good.

What a load of nonsense. Just think for one second about what you wrote: not incorporating information into the price makes it "right"?



>Perfect information is just a theoretical benchmark used by economists

It's not used as a benchmark. It's used as an assumption when building (largely wrong) neoclassical mathematical models of the economy.


Information can be incorrect.

And yes to your larger question, there are no and have never been any free market in human history. I would challenge you to name one, if you can.




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