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A commons is nothing more than a public good that we build out of private goods.
Under the Cotonou Agreement, formerly known as the Lome Convention, African countries have been given an opportunity by Europe to export goods, duty-free, to the European Union market.
As they say over there, "The odds are good, but the goods are odd."
Wright argues that technology has increased the number of positive-sum games that humans tend to be embroiled in, by allowing the trade of goods, services and ideas over longer distances and among larger groups of people.
Etsy is providing goods that people make themselves and they're selling it in a marketplace.
We tend to stereotype victims as grisly headlines, self-destructive women, damaged goods.
In total, my research estimates that the GDP numbers miss over 300 billion dollars per year in free goods and services on the Internet.
When goods are digital, they can be replicated with perfect quality at nearly zero cost, and they can be delivered almost instantaneously.
Does that remind you of a consumer lifestyle, where you work hard to get money, you spend that money on consumer goods which you hope you'll enjoy using?
So after collecting the money, when he left, we were waiting for him to bring the goods.
If you want to sell huge volumes of somewhat expensive goods to people, you really want a large, stable, prosperous middle class.
Now it's typically used to market goods and services to targeted demographics, but it's a dual-use technology, because targeting is used in another context.
One percent of us own 40 percent of all the goods and services.
The one percent will own even more than 40 percent of all the world's goods and services.
Did you know that today we maintain a global herd of 60 billion animals to provide our meat, dairy, eggs and leather goods?
There's a second reason apart from the worry about inequality, and it's this: with some social goods and practices, when market thinking and market values enter, they may change the meaning of those practices and crowd out attitudes and norms worth caring about.
Economists often assume that markets are inert, that they do not touch or taint the goods they exchange.
Market exchange, they assume, doesn't change the meaning or value of the goods being exchanged.
This may be true enough if we're talking about material goods.
But the same may not be true if we're talking about nonmaterial goods and social practices such as teaching and learning or engaging together in civic life.
Once we see that markets and commerce, when extended beyond the material domain, can change the character of the goods themselves, can change the meaning of the social practices, as in the example of teaching and learning, we have to ask where markets belong and where they don't, where they may actually undermine values and attitudes worth caring about.
But once we see that markets change the character of goods, we have to debate among ourselves these bigger questions about how to value goods.
Do we want a society where everything is up for sale, or are there certain moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?
Just like consumer goods and chain stores, we mass-produce glass and steel and concrete and asphalt and drywall, and we deploy them in mind-numbingly similar ways across the planet.
They say, "You know, the state, it's necessary to fix these little market failures when you have public goods or different types of negative externalities like pollution, but you know what, what is the next big revolution going to be after the Internet?
We cannot get medicine to them reliably, they cannot get critical supplies, and they cannot get their goods to market in order to create a sustainable income.
Imagine one billion people being connected to physical goods in the same way that mobile telecommunications connected them to information.
And so I'm absolutely fascinated by consumer goods and how the consumer goods that we have kind of become immune to that fill our lives have an impact on the natural environment.
So I launch into an explanation of how an unlimited supply of money chasing a limited number of goods sends prices to the moon.
Well, this involves the creation of money to buy goods, not assets.
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