If conservatives no longer take free markets seriously, why should liberals?

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Jamie Galbraith in the Predator State:

Galbraith follows with an impertinent question: if conservatives no longer take free markets seriously, why should liberals? Why keep liberal thought in the straitjacket of pay-as-you-go, of assigning inflation control to the Federal Reserve, of attempting to “make markets work”? Why not build a new economic policy based on what is really happening in this country?

Which is??

Update: hat tip Movie Guy on Galbraith’s latest in the Washington Independent.