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Milton’s paradise
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“IF YOU WANT to see how the free market really works this is the place to come,” said Milton Friedman in “Free to Choose”, his 1980s TV series. He was sitting on a cross-harbour ferry in Hong Kong. The city, he said, was an “almost laboratory experiment in what happens when government...leaves people free to pursue their own objectives”.

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