Socialist converts to free market!
In today's NY Times business section: "How Food Banks Can Stop Sending Potatoes to Idaho"? See https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/upshot/sending-potatoes-to-idaho-how-the-free-market-helps-food-banks.html
In particular, note in the story how John Arnold, a food bank director in western Michigan and a hard core socialist, changed his mind about the markets after a bidding system was developed to more efficiently distribute donated food. His initial response was, "I am a socialist. That's why I run a food bank. I don't believe in markets." But, said the NY Times, he came around, "because he believed that the market system was better for the people his food bank served."
The author of the article, a Harvard economist, says that Canice Prendergast, a professor at U of Chicago business school, is responsible for creating the bidding market system. Another Chicago triumph!
If I do an update on my book, "EconoPower: How Economists are Transforming the World" (Wiley, 2008), I'd add a chapter with this success story, "A Socialist Converts to the Free Market!" Here's a link to my book: https://www.amazon.com/EconoPower-Generation-Economists-Transforming-World/dp/1119091861/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me
This quite a story of how the markets can achieve equity and efficiency.