The problem is, due to lax regulation over the past few decades: 1) businesses are increasingly colluding on prices distorting market prices and undermining the capitalist principles of price setting via supply and demand; 2) businesses are offering fewer and fewer full time jobs with good pay and benefits where, were it not for the government, wages would be falling precipitously further below even our current minimum wage; 3) their are perfectly reasonable areas in the economy where natural monopolies exist (utilities) or the government actually delivers care more efficiently and equitable (single payer healthcare).  The authors article is little more than the repetition of long held utopian conservative ideals about what the economy can do when we leave it alone that simply dn't stand up in reality.  You don't have to like the Liberals or Wynne to acknowledge this much. Reasonable regulation of the economy is good and necessary.