Fred Foldvary asked: >Were any economists prior to the 1930s for a pure free >market? Ludwig von Mises for sure. He published a series of articles in the 1920s critical of interventionism. They are collected in A CRITIQUE OF INTERVENTIONISM, Arlington House, 1977 (originally published in 1929 as Kritik des Interventionismus, Gustav Fischer Verlag). Samuel Bostaph