Mises Wire
Author:
Joakim Book
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When I was at the university, I once objected to a classmate’s lazy use of “public goods.” He had used it to favor his policy position, as a shorthand synonym of what’s good for society—only a thinly veiled euphemism for what I want to happen . “Public goods are things that are nonrivalrous and nonexcludable,” I said, almost sputtering off a