Here's a sports analogy I can go along with, from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!) (p. 73):
RULES OF THE GAME: Sports contain a lot of rules, and I'm not a big fan of "rules," especially when it comes to sports. That's just Big Government interference. Let the free market decide what constitutes a touchdown.
The participants in markets (free or constricted) generate rules that make
both interpersonal and impersonal transactions feasible. That may not be
transparent to many non-participants, however.