Free Markets and European Markets

For those of you looking at the ethics, free markets, and "corporate social responsibility," you might want to read the following article by the most recent Nobel Prize winner in economics, Edumund Phelps.
(Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.com)

On a not entirely unrelated matter, you might want to check out the fate of Airbus, the European-style competitor to the American airplane builder Boeing.