From: GERALD LEVY (gerald_a_levy@msn.com)
Date: Fri Jun 06 2008 - 09:16:23 EDT
> However, as Henry D. Dickinson stated, consumers have to be responsible for their venality and if we > start the production of a good that in short time will be unsold because consumers changed their minds, > we have to charge them with an “uncertainty surcharge”. They have to be responsible for their > preferences but we should not forbid in advance certain rare or marginal consumptions. Hi Alejandro A: An "uncertainty surcharge" would cause the price (or exchange rate, in the case of barter) to increase and this would mean that it would be _more_ likely that there would be unsold (or unexchanged) goods and hence wasted resources. In solidarity, Jerry _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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