id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4161 Free market - Wikipedia .html text/html 9489 1756 49 According to The Heritage Foundation, these free market principles are what helped the United States transition to a free-market economy.[citation needed] International free trade improved the country and in order for Americans to prosper from a strong economy they had no choice but to embrace it.[3] Each group is assigned a numerical value between 1 and 5 as the index is the arithmetical mean of the values, rounded to the nearest hundredth. The definition of free market has been disputed and made complex by collectivist political philosophers and socialist economic ideas.[1] This contention arose from the divergence from classical economists such as Richard Cantillon, Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Thomas Robert Malthus and from the continental economics developed primarily by the Spanish scholastic and French classical economists, including Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, Jean-Baptiste Say and Frédéric Bastiat. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4161.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4161.txt