|Peter Boettke|
Peter Leeson, Chris Coyne and I have a new paper discussing the debate over Quasimarkets in the context of the discussion of the political economy of local public economics.
Bottom line: what is wrong with quasi-markets is their quasi-ness, not their market-ness.
For the "young people" -- who, I understand, have an aversion to watching old black-and-white movies -- the picture, above, is of Charles Laughton playing Quasimodo in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939), the movie based on Victor Hugo's novel.
Richard Ebeling
Posted by: Richard Ebeling | March 16, 2011 at 06:46 AM
Completely off topic, but hoping for a little help. Do you have any recommendations for pieces arguing against Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation? I would greatly appreciate the help.
Posted by: Hume | March 16, 2011 at 10:23 AM
A picture pun. How clever!
Posted by: Mario Rizzo | March 16, 2011 at 07:46 PM
Hume: you might try the Hejeebu and McCloskey piece in Critical Review circa 1999 - it's a pretty effective critique
Posted by: John | March 17, 2011 at 03:17 PM