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Modern analysis has yet to describe inefficiency in a world where indivisibilities are present and knowledge is costly to produce.
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The legal substructure is private; the use of payments to influence the behavior of others is neither prohibited nor frowned upon. But the ' frictions" that perfect decentralization assumes away, must be lived with in laissez-faire.
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Business firms, in which controlled cooperation takes place, are the first important implication of costly transactions. The laissez-faire filtering process, using the profit test, selects some of these business organizations for survival and rejects others.
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Property rights develop to internalize externalities when the gains of internalization become larger than the cost of internalization. Increased internalization, in the main, results from changes in economic values, changes which stem from the development of new technology and the opening of new markets, changes to which old property rights are poorly attuned [G]iven a community's tastes... [for private versus state ownership], the emergence of new private or state-owned property rights will be in response to changes in technology and relative prices.
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The view that now pervades much public policy economics implicitly presents the relevant choice as between an ideal norm and an existing "imperfect" institutional arrangement. This nirvana approach differs considerably from a comparative institution approach in which the relevant choice is between alternative real institutional arrangements.
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A relevant notion of efficiency must refer to scarcity and people as they are, not as they could be.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Born:
May 31, 1930
Died:
January 4, 2019
(aged 88)
Bio:
Harold Demsetz was a professor emeritus of economics at the University of California at Los Angeles.
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