[extropy-chat] Externalities

[Brett Paatsch]

PS: Terrorism may be usefully considered as a phenomenon arising
from not applying the economic way of thinking about externalities
far enough beyond one's parochial settings.  

We'll delay dropping the trade barriers against cheap food producing
countries just a little longer. We'll hand out our free trade agreements
unilaterally not multilaterally to our friends and supporters and not to
those nasties who don't like us when we use foreign policy to get
ourselves elected.

Its a form of the pollution that washes back onto the beach. When
citizens and governments get that then the real war on terrorism 
can begin. 

Brett Paatsch