[ExI] government corruption

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/23 Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>:
>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2009/2/22 painlord2k at libero.it <painlord2k at libero.it>:
>>>
>>>> The size of the group, to be most efficient, must be smaller than 100. 140
>>>> is the number of Dumbar and is a maximum, not the most efficient number.
>>>> Smaller is better. Much smaller. Like 30.
>>>
>>> But there are many things that such small groups can't do at all, let
>>> alone do efficiently.
>>
>> ### For large scale efficiency, we have the markets. Pity that most
>> people hate them.
>
> It's not that most people hate the markets, it's that most people
> don't see the sense in completely unfettered markets. It's the flip
> side of hardline communism, which allowed *no* free market activity.
>
### The flip side of evil is good. Most people have an anti-market
bias (well-documented by Bryan Caplan), that's why they insist on
fettering i.e. destroying it. They always imagine that some
bureaucrats and politicos will be better than people who have no power
to compel obedience.

Rafal