THE WEEKEND INTERVIEW: "Gary Becker: Now Is No Time to Give Up on Markets," by Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal, 21-22 March 2009.

Two bits:

What Mr. Becker has seen over a career spanning more than five decades is that free markets are good for human progress. And at a time when increasing government intervention in the economy is all the rage, he insists that economic liberals must not withdraw from the debate simply because their cause, for now, seems quixotic.

Here, here.

More to my tone in Great Powers:

"When the market economy is compared to alternatives, nothing is better at raising productivity, reducing poverty, improving health and integrating the people of the world."

Amen, brother.