![]() ![]() ![]() The culmination of his work was the passage in 1906 of the famed Meat Inspection Act, enshrined in most history books as a sacred cow (excuse the pun) of the interventionist state. The objective of his effort was government regulation. Sinclair’s focus of scorn was the meatpacking industry. Nearly ninety years ago, muckraking novelist Upton Sinclair wrote a book titled The Jungle which wove a tale of greed and abuse that reverberates to this day as a powerful case against laissez faire. ![]() We are constantly rewriting prejudiced accounts of history to match what really happened. Statists and interventionists spout an endless stream of put-downs and one-liners that pass as thorough critiques of the market, each one requiring a time-consuming, painstaking response and appeal to reason. We spend as much time explaining the workings of the market as we do debunking myths and clichés about it. It seems that as soon as we put out one fire, opponents of the market manage to ignite ten others. Advocates of the spontaneous order of freedom and free markets are forever stomping out the fires of fallacious reasoning, anti-capitalist bias, and twisted history. ![]()
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