Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site oliven.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amdcad!decwrl!sun!qubix!ios!oliveb!oliven!danw From: danw@oliven.UUCP (danw) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: why not? Message-ID: <732@oliven.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 11:53:13 EST Article-I.D.: oliven.732 Posted: Fri Nov 30 11:53:13 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 05:07:28 EST Organization: National Cobalt Testing Range Lines: 17 ======================================================================= > By the way, in a libertarian society, nothing would prevent people from > forming and joining compacts designed to result in enforced > Pareto-optimal outcomes among themselves. >>That's a valid point which Clarke discusses at some length. However, it >>would not work for large-scale externality problems like air pollution, >>national defense, research, and many others. Why not? danw