Introduction THE CRISIS OF THE LIBERAL ORDER HL

Introduction THE CRISIS OF THE LIBERAL ORDER
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Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. —JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES,
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The Berlin Wall fell when one of us was just starting preschool
Note:IL PUNTO DI PARTANZA

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Leading thinkers declared “the end of history.”
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global intellectual consensus,

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economics, more than any other field, took on the mantle of leadership
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as mainstream voices of reason,
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being highly mathematical and quantitative, appeared to be ideologically neutral.
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the field marginalized those on the radical left (Marxists) and right (the so-called Austrian school).
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justifying existing market institutions
Note:TUTTO IL GRAN LAVORO DEGLI ECONOMISTI

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moderate reforms
Note:AL MASSIMO

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If markets “failed,” the theory went, moderate regulation, based on cost-benefit analysis,
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inequality were largely ignored.

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a social safety net ensured that the worst
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The financial crisis of 2008
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it seemed to be no different from most recessions.
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a great deal of the economic progress that had taken place before the recession was illusory
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Ballooning inequality, stagnating living standards, and rising economic insecurity
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Occupy Wall Street
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Tea Party movements

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public lost faith in the mainstream policy analysis
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public opinion polarized.
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controversies over cultural issues, especially immigration, anger at the elites
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Xenophobia and populism

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ideas have not kept up with the crisis.
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no alternative has presented
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authoritarianism is hardly an appealing substitute.

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DI FATTO

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international governance institutions have become favorite scapegoats,
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the mainstream technocratic approach of the past
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including Adam Smith, the Marquis de Condorcet, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Henry George, Léon Walras, and Beatrice Webb.
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economic and political system they had inherited from the eighteenth century could not keep up with changes
Note:UNA SOTUAZIONE SIMILE ALLA NS

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Entrenched privilege blocked efforts to promote equality,
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Their vision and reforms combined the libertarian aspirations of today’s right with the egalitarian goals of today’s left
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Inequality
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rising inequality within wealthy countries.
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the top 1%

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Is this growth in inequality simply the price of a dynamic economy,
Note:LA TESI NEOLIBERISTA

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growing inequality reflects the diverging skills
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rising inequality does not reflect only diverging wages, but the shift of national income away from wages entirely.
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“labor share.”
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10% drop

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reward to saving is itself falling
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increasing fraction of national income is being absorbed by market power—what we later call the “monopoly problem.”
Note:UN PROBL DI MONOPOLI... IMO DIFESI PIU' CHE ALTRO DA UNA COLLUSIONE CON LA POLITICA E LA CONSEGUENTE IPER REGOLAMENTAZIONE CHE CARATTERIZZA E PARALIZZA LE NOSTRE SOCIETA' CONSEGNANDOLE ALLA BUROCRAZIA

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a rich-get-richer dynamic.
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(the excess price or “markup” firms charge over cost)
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The trajectory of inequality across countries is a different story.
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From 1820 to 1970, inequality between countries grew nearly tenfold; in contrast, inequality within countries declined by about a fifth.
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inequality has fallen by about a fifth and domestic inequality within wealthy countries has risen.
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international inequality began to fall just as globalization began
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Stagnation
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when “stagflation” (simultaneously high inflation and unemployment) undermined the then-accepted Keynesian argument
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The neoliberal and “supply-side” ideas that grew up
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Even if capitalism might cause some inequality, wealth would eventually “trickle down” to ordinary workers.
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productivity growth has dramatically fallen
Note:NEANCHE LA CRESCITA...FIGURIAMOCI LO SGOCCIOLAMENTO

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This phenomenon has been less dramatic in the United States than in other wealthy countries.
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exceptions of the 1995–2004

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France and Japan, productivity growth fell
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widespread unemployment
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In most countries in Europe, unemployment has risen from rates of 4% to 6% midcentury to a persistent 10% or higher rate.
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reallocating capital and employment from less productive entities to more productive
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the trends of rising inequality and stagnating growth
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no longer living much better than their parents did.
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These trends pose the same problem for the neoliberal economic consensus that stagflation posed for the Keynesian consensus before it.
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Call it stagnequality
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Conflict
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it would be natural to expect a leftist populist backlash to stagnequality and a subsequent move to redistribute income.
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Bernie Sanders

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Jeremy Corbyn

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history has shown that fascist or ultranationalist movements have come to power when the social fabric is fraying.
Note:D ALTRA PARTE

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Donald Trump is the first true populist president,

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trade barriers and immigration restrictions
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appeal to class identity or distributive justice,
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ethnonationalist creed of “blood and soil.”

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high levels of political polarization,
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The movements offer little in terms of realistic policy proposals
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they are protesting against the failures of existing political systems
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White, male, working-class earnings are stagnating in wealthy countries, while women, ethnic and racial minorities, and people in developing nations are enjoying relative advances.
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political conflicts relate to the difficulty of democratically resolving issues
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Attempts to resolve these issues often end up in the hands of the judicial system. But judges are members of the elite
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Their decisions often inflame rather than settle cultural disputes.
Note:GIUDICI FUORI DAL MONDO

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World Trade Organization and the European Union,
Note:ALTRE ORG CHE OCHE INFIAMMANO IL CONFLITTO ANZICHÈ RISOLVERLO

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The Markets and Their Discontents
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Their goals were to free markets from the control of feudalistic monopolists
Note:FILOSOFI RADICALI

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In the past, most individuals lived their lives within small, tight-knit communities where moral impulses, social shame, gossip, and empathy provided the primary incentives
Note:IL COMUNITARISMO PRE RADICALE

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sociologists sometimes call these communities “moral economies.”
Note:MORALITÀ...LA STERZATA DI SMITH E DEL SUO MACELLAIO

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Religion served to constrain such deviance at every turn.
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who amassed wealth from “commerce” were regarded with suspicion
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An idealized portrait of such a society is Frank Capra’s 1946 classic film It’s a Wonderful Life.
Note:LUI È UN BANCHIERE ATTENTO ALLA COMUNITÀ E DALLA C VENE AIUTATO QUANDO FALLISCE

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a greedy, amoral competitor, Mr. Potter,
Note:LO SMITHIANO

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Smith’s critics have emphasized the real advantages of moral economies over markets.
Note:I COMUNITARISTI

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if a homeowner beautifies her house, she raises the value of her neighbor’s property, but the market rewards her only for the increase in her own home’s
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Despite these advantages, moral economies break down as the scope and scale of trade expand.
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mass production and global supply chains
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But if millions of people worldwide consume a product, it is impractical for them to coordinate a boycott
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Unable to account for the needs of those far away, they may become hostile to outsiders and intolerant of internal diversity,
Note:LA TRISTE FINE DELL ECONOMIA MORALE

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From The Scarlet Letter to Sister Carrie,
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Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale

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communities, such as the Amish,
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Marxists believed that state ownership of capital and control of industry were the only paths out of “wage slavery,”25 but central planning ultimately proved a failure. The Soviet Union
Note:L ALTERNATIVA A SINISTRA

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All told, the market faces no serious contender
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The Rules of a True Market
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how markets should be organized.
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government needs only to “get out of the way.”
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Yet any sophisticated, large-scale market depends on well-designed and well-enforced rules

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MA ANCHE IL MERCATO HA LE SUE REGOLE NON TUTTI I MERCATI SONO UGUALI

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freedom, competition, and openness.
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In a free market, individuals may purchase any goods they want as long as they pay a price sufficient
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to prevent harm to others.”
Note:MILL...L UNICO MODO DI ESERCITARE CORRETTAMENTE IL POTERE

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rationing system
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rationing resulted in bland uniformity
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In a competitive market, individuals must take as a given the prices they pay and get paid.
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no ability to manipulate prices

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struggle against monopolies

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For instance, in most places in the United States there is only one cable service available,
Note:PREZZI SALATI E BASSA QUALITÀ

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In an open market, all people, regardless of nationality, gender identity, color, or creed, are allowed to participate
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the contributions of women
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not only a productive force, but also a profoundly egalitarian one.
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“people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy
Note:NEANCHE SMITH CREDEVA NELLA NATURALEZZA DEI MERCATI

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The central theme of the Philosophical Radicals was the struggle against a society dominated by the aristocracy.
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industrial capitalism showed a tendency toward new forms of monopoly
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Antitrust policies and legal support for labor unions restrained the power of monopolies.
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Social insurance, progressive taxation, and free compulsory education enhanced competition by expanding access to opportunity.
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checks and balances,

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fundamental rights,

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judicial power to protect minority

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Following World War II, these reforms helped usher in an unprecedented period of economic growth,
Note:HANNO FUNZIONATO

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Economists came to believe that differences in individuals’ natural talents are the main source of inequality.
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they must be limited lest they come at a cost to the size of the total economic pie.
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This tradeoff fragmented the liberal coalition.
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liberals
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social democrats in Europe.
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They prioritized equality

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During the 1960s and 1970s they won victories in the US Civil Rights

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UNA LORO VITTORIA

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liberals who prioritized free markets
Note:DESTRA MODERNA

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known as libertarians in the United States

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neoliberals in Europe.

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fighting government intervention,

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Their great victories came during the 1980s and 1990s, as countries sold off nationalized industries, deregulated the economy, and opened to foreign trade.
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With economic stagnation and rising inequality within countries
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we believe that it is the result of a failure of ideas.
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Private property inherently conferred market power,
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One-person-one-vote gave majorities the power to tyrannize minorities.
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became the squabbling technocrats of today.
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Perfect Competition: Opium of the Elites
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economists’ increasing assumption that markets are “perfectly competitive,
Note:IL GUAIO

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Yet few markets in the real world work this way,
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Consider the process of buying a home.
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in large cities
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Houses differ in location, amenities, views, light, and so forth.
Note:DIVERSITÀ TRA I BENI

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nothing like grain
Note:LA TIPICA MERCE DEI CLASSICI

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This means that buyers and sellers both have significant bargaining power.
Note:POTERE DI MERCATO

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Such strategic behavior often causes trades to fail.
Note:STRATEGIA...ASIMMETRIA

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land development schemes,
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The same holds true for labor markets, since all workers have different talents and dispositions and live in different places.
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We claim that market power is omnipresent and intrinsic to the current institutional
Note:ASSUNTO

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many areas of human life are lacking in markets that could vastly improve people’s well-being.
Note:ALTRO PROBLEMA

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goods and services usually provided by governments, like policing, public parks, roads, social insurance,
Note:ESEMPI

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a market for political influence.
Note:QUEL CHE OCCORRE

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If money were allowed to purchase political influence,
Note:OBIEZIONE

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The history of political corruption
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Once the majority rules, what happens to those in the minority? They may care deeply about an issue—say the right of transgender people to use a restroom, or preventing abortions
Note:MA LA MAGGIORANZA HA I SUOI INCONVENIENTI

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One-person-one-vote stops compromise among groups
Note:VALORIZZARE LE MINORANZE

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Severe restrictions on migration halt cross-border trade in labor,
Note:ALTRO PROB...ALTRO MERCATO ASSENTE

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A much-needed market in data simply does not exist.
Note:ALTRO PROB...ORA INCASANO SOLO GOOG E FACE

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Imagining Radical Markets
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converting the market in private property into a kind of market in “uses.”
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Chapter 2 describes an efficient market for “public goods” shared by many people and normally created by governments.
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market in migrant labor;
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limit on financial holdings
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how market forces can be extended to the digital economy.
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