I'm probably much more to the center on economic issues than you, but I can't help but feel that the "free market" is for Liberal Catholics what "the pill" is for the conservative ones. They just repeat the same teaching over & over without seeing the underlying assumptions - moral, empirical, etc. have changed. The fact that McElroy - no intellectual slouch - continues to tout a "top-down" economic model after spending years in ministry in & around Silicon Valley is an example of this. His description of the "free market" must sound very strange to many of his millenial tech worker- parishoners.