The point, my friend, is that "economic freedom" is ideological jargon that is Cold War baggage, and really has no bearing in a meaningful discussion. To even speak of dichotomizing freedom into different types should be a red flag that ideology is at work.
The company town I alluded to is case in point. In the frontier days of the American expansion westward, there wasn't much in the way of economic regulation at all. The federal government couldn't effectively enforce even basic laws, let alone anything as complicated as economic regulations on the frontier, and local jurisdictions did scarcely anything beyond try to arbitrate theft and land claims. In this absence of statism, though, economic considerations still produced situations that were decidedly unfree for many of those involved.
