… or just go to Zimbabwe and witness the effects firsthand.

U.S. News credits the African nation’s turn away from the free market:

Official government figures in May put the nation’s annual inflation
rate at 1,042.9 percent, though private economists say the real figure
is close to 2,000 percent, with shoppers forced to carry bags of
freshly printed currency to pay for even the smallest purchases. In
contrast, all of Zimbabwe’s neighbors–South Africa, Botswana, Zambia,
and Mozambique–are registering impressive economic growth as a result
of free-market policies.