Re: Gov't loves gov't

Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Sat, 24 Jan 1998 16:08:36 -0800 (PST)


> This is true, but it also completely begs the question of how
> _either_ of you come to own anything in the first place. No-one has
> ever provided a satisfying explanation of how a person comes to
> 'own' a given piece of land from a state of nature.

Coase's work makes that completely irrelevant. In a sufficiently
free market with sufficiently low tansaction costs, the optimal
result will be found /regardless of initial distribution/. So why
whine about how anyone came to own things originally? It doesn't
matter; what matters is working on reducing transaction costs.

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