Clarifying my statement about " we need to get wind turbine price tag to
include pollution mitigation at bare minimum" in response to V.
Burachynsky's response: the "we" was an inadvertent slip. I work with many
environmental types and have for years who have pushed to get the true cost
of producin
Eric, thanks for the passage below. It illuminates a lot for me.
As for whether this formally absurd framing has actually captured
something useful, we could probably have a long discussion--even
economists were chastened by the outcomes of the last few years.
After a lot of years of list
Nick, hi,
No boxing of ears. Your use of externalities is right on, and in the
spirit of the economists' use of that term in relation to
"competition". Both, in this construction, are terms of art.
When ordinary people say "competition", perhaps we think of rugby, Go,
or Odyssean deception in o
