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From: berman@psuvax1.UUCP (Piotr Berman)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Solution to Free Rider problem
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Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 18:09:44 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  6 18:09:44 1986
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> [ Radford Neal radford@calgary]
> >/* ---------- "Solution to Free Rider problem" ---------- */
>
> Looks like a *general* solution ! Details could vary, of course -
> e.g., subscribers could send pledges instead of actual money,
> but it should work for DEFENSE and everything else as well
> (welfare, education, road repair, space exploration ...).
> As soon as someone licks the crummy eminent domain problem
> - which could never arise in 3 DIMENSIONS anyway - we
> are ready for the *last* constitutional convention ! ( :-)?) .

I would not hurry for the convention.
What you propose is to burden all citizens with evaluating private
offers for everything.  Indeed, one simple project may task the
intelectual capacity of citizens pretty heavily.  A solution which
is good for each of 100 problems does not need to be good for
all of them.

Piotr Berman