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Mises Wire
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Robert P. Murphy
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In my seminar on spontaneous order, the topic today was road design. One of the articles discussed experiments with variable rush hour pricing for certain lanes (in California, I think). The idea is that there is always a certain lane that will have 65 mph travel, but it might cost $20 to use it at 6 pm. Anyway, I explained other applications of
Mises Wire
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Robert P. Murphy
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Paul Poenicke, a student from my honors seminar on Spontaneous Order, sent me this Slate article concerning the “unorganized” and surprisingly efficient market in “green gold” out of Kenya. A quote from the end of the article: Miraa is certainly a striking example of business ingenuity rising to meet formidable challenges. The chemicals that give
Mises Wire
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Robert P. Murphy
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Skype goes for the gold : In this topsy-turvy world, Skype represents the competitive extreme, wielding a weapon that few others are willing or able to match: Using peer-to-peer architecture, it claims it can offer its software service for free to tens of millions of people, and still make boatloads of profits by persuading only a fraction of its