Re: poly: The singleton hypothesis

From: Robin Hanson <hanson@econ.berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue May 05 1998 - 09:37:17 PDT

Nick writes:
>I don't think it's useful to consider the singleton discussion as a
>continuation of the traditional debate between the merits of markets
>vs. government. First, the singleton could very well use market
>mechanisms internally to produce its output.

But that is exactly one of the strongest standard arguments usually
invoked for good government.

Robin Hanson
hanson@econ.berkeley.edu http://hanson.berkeley.edu/
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Received on Tue May 5 16:46:08 1998

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