On a private mailing list someone wrote:
having just seen the 1951 Britisher version of the Dickens Christmas Carol, it struck me that free marketeers should really live in Dickensian England and try work their way out from the bottom.
I thought of writing a rant about Dickens’s sins, but a better approach presented itself:
FYI
1838: Oliver Twist
1843: A Christmas Carol
1846: repeal of the Corn Laws — commonly cited as the first triumph of the free trade movement