it is my belief that whenever governments attempt to sway the Invisible Hand [of the free market], whenever they attempt to bend the flow of trade to their will, then must free men fear for their liberties – for that is when we know that we are in the presence of a power that seeks to make children of us, a force that seeks to usurp the sovereign will that God has bestowed equally on all of us.

Amitav Ghosh: River of Smoke: Ibis Trilogy Book 2 (English Edition)