the corporate scandals that have rocked the foundations of american society have revealed an ugly side of the free market; greed gone rampant. these scandals have provided evidence to opportunists who claim that they now have the ultimate proof that a free market system is destined to be the great undoing of civil society. nothing could be further from the truth. we simply need to weed out the guilty and get back to business as usual so that we can continue to reap the benefits of the economic system that even karl marx recognized as the most productive ever developed.the writer of this commentary argues that a benefit of the free market economy is that it