TCS has a great, brief column on the benefits of market economics. Pete Geddes discusses markets springing up in POW camps, along strained supply lines, (anywhere there is scarcity, I hear Thomas Sowell saying...)
"No system equals the market in maximizing the conjunction of liberty and prosperity. To understand the value of markets we must recognize them as a natural process, not a political construct. They are mechanisms by which people can, without coercion, communicate and coordinate their actions."
Read it. Mail it to your friends. Let Freedom Ring.