Radical Markets

From earlier notes:

  • Auctions as free markets- used everyhwhere from ads to spectrum
  • Moral economies were the norm before. Superior to market economy in many ways but do not scale past trust/gossip/community
  • Markets must be free, competitive, and open
  • Two problems - market power, and lack of markets
  • Monopoly power is everywhere - individual land owners, etc
    • Monopoly game was developed to share this idea
  • Corporations skirt this by owning many assets
  • Voting
    • You should have to pay for what your vote denies someone else (the way buying a good denies them that good)
    • Y