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Enron wasn't operating in a perfectly free market. The electric power business in California is heavily regulated, in particular, the utilities were forced by law to pay whatever Enron demanded, and also by law were unable to pass those costs along to the ratepayers.

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Generally Enron is described as an example of deregulation gone wrong as Enron was able to control supply. That has nothing to do with passing off costs to ratepayers.

Even if that's not a perfect example, do we really disagree that a pure free market doesn't always lead to the optimum outcome?

Also, I don't think its civil to downvote simply b/c you disagree.

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