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From: renner@uiucdcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: replies to trc, stuart, danw, and rs
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Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 08:48:00 EDT
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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
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