Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!renner From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: replies to trc, stuart, danw, and rs Message-ID: <29200159@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 08:48:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.29200159 Posted: Mon Oct 15 08:48:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Oct-84 05:42:14 EDT References: <409@wucs.UUCP> Lines: 15 Nf-ID: #R:wucs:-40900:uiucdcs:29200159:000:625 Nf-From: uiucdcs!renner Oct 15 07:48:00 1984 > True, but I'm talking about a result that has been *proven*, given > assumptions that all parties agree to. To wit: it's been proven that, > without coercion, "public goods" (economic sense) will be "underproduced" > (also economic sense)... > -- Paul V Torek (pvt1047@wucec1) I'd be interested in seeing the evidence behind this "proof." I suspect that the arguments involve either the game of defining "public goods" equivalend to things "underproduced" in the free market, or actual economic problems produced by government interference in the free market. Scott Renner {pur-ee,ihnp4}!uiucdcs!renner