At 05:48 PM 09/28/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>JD>I tell my students that national defense, a clean environment, and the
>legal system are "public goods." Because they can't be divided up into
>individual bundles, because you can't exclude someone from the consumption
>of them, and because one person's
JD>I tell my students that national defense, a clean environment, and the
legal system are "public goods." Because they can't be divided up into
individual bundles, because you can't exclude someone from the consumption
of them, and because one person's consumption of the good does not detract
fro
of
the neoliberal revolution -- the "public goods" are more and more being
provided through the market, but only (or disproportionately) to the rich
and powerful. They can be broken up and sold.
The legal system protects those folks in the gated communities -- and, in
general, tho
never
saw any evidence that countries outside of Europe foisted capitalism on it.
>About 10 years ago, I had the insight that the world was evolving into
>something that looked a bit like one of those third world countries which
>was sharply differentiated between a tiny elite that lived
ent of underdevelopment" elsewhere.
About 10 years ago, I had the insight that the world was evolving into
something that looked a bit like one of those third world countries which
was sharply differentiated between a tiny elite that lived in gated
communities and the rest of society that fend
