You guys provide wonderful counterpoint to some of the overly dry, lean prose that a few of us serve up here. This richness is highly nutritious, savory, and satisfying. It also reawakens (in me at least) a glimmer of optimism amid my admitted gloomy "Heart of Darkness", "The Wasteland", and "Apocalypse Now" literary psycho-heritage. (Kurtz is in each)
Back to _The Efficient Society_, by Joseph Heath. He claims that Hobbes, not Locke had it right re human nature. Without sufficient rules of governance (laws & customs), market economies can behave as did some eastern bloc ones once communism was toppled.(large scale criminality, organized crime, high levels of corruption) Yet without market economies, inefficiencies abound in producing well-being for societies. The feedback that pricing gives to the production system is not possible in command and control centralized economies. He fully acknowledges negative externalities (costs that intentionally are offloaded on to the commons) such as smells, particulates, soil/water pollution, noise... Next section will be on "Big Business"
Steve
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