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Free and Open Source Software–and Other Market Failures
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2024
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You know, as time passes I get the feeling that this "space of externalities >>> the market space" might indeed be the case, or otherwise put that the free market fails to allocate resources efficiently more often than it succeeds. I just don't know if there's any empirical evidence for it and therefore I didn't want to add much of my opinion. Just the mainstream economic view of externalities coupled with a few obvious and massive examples like climate change paints a decent picture.
Do you know of any analysis that tries to compare the space of externalities vs the space of the market?