@SteveRoth Right. Neoliberal economics is based on the presumption of an innocent or "natural" default, that could be left untouched, "undistorted". But of course there is no such thing in social affairs. The world as it exists is a result of our choices, across a whole spectrum of (de)centralization and institutions that look nothing like the atomized price takers of models. Those institutions continue to make choices, none of which can be neutral.