(The latter also worked for General Pinochet in Chile, imposing free markets, critics say, at the point of a bayonet).
They probably all use their statutorily imposed free time for sitting about in cafes talking about philosophy, and now we will have to, too.
Take President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, who startled the World Economic Forum in Davos by calling for "moral" capitalism, in which environmental law, labour law and health law would enjoy the same status as rules imposing free trade.
Laws also signalled that the Liberal Democrats may split with their coalition partners over imposing free schools or academies in places requiring new schools to be built due to high demand.
This was as true of Genghis Khan, whose rampages across the steppes led to the pax Mongolica that allowed Eurasian trade to flourish in the 13th century, as it was of the British empire which imposed free trade on large parts of Asia and Africa.
At an internal meeting in the BBC on Friday 26 June, the strategy head warned that a new attempt to impose free licence fees for the over-75s was now a distinct possibility, although he had no idea how or when it might happen.
It is not surprising, then, that such a lop-sided policy of trade liberalization is sometimes called "free trade imperialism". Taking advantage of the so-called Third World debt crisis, the IMF, World Bank and WTO imposed free trade and other "adjustment programs" on 70 developing countries in the course of the 1980s and 1990s.
The de-adhesion process was then simulated by imposing free boundary conditions on the outer edge and solving the transient problem.
For Klein, he was another victim of the "Chicago Boys" who wanted to impose free-market capitalism on the region.
His advisers argue that, while Mr Sarkozy does believe in a strong industrial policy, such views are also tactical: they give him the credibility to impose free-market solutions elsewhere.
