David Leonhardt, in this Sunday’s NYTimes Magazine says: “A public good is something that the free market tends not to provide on its own, to the detriment of society. Pollution laws and police departments are classic examples.” Elsewhere, in the Opinion section of the Wall Street Journal I read: “In Vallejo, CA compensation packages for [...]
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Making too much of and from a “public good.”
March 27, 2010Hardly untouched and unblemished
February 14, 2009Those of you who might not want to think that we are no less a part of earthly life than are rodents and roaches, mites and maggots, as well as those of you who might want to go on believing that somehow we stand apart, pure and good, God’s highest handiwork, might consider the following [...]
