[was: RE: [PEN-L:32445] Re: Re: Re: Re: Privatization of information]
Ian writes:>Also, some activists have begun speaking of corporatization rather than
privatization because to concede to the corps. vocabulary is to hobble
ourselves.<
Almost no phenomenon is truly private in its impact. Even though ownership of, say, resources used in the military are sometimes privately owned, their impact is hardly private. Since external costs and benefits are so "ubiquitous" (to use mainstream economists Baumol and Blinder's word), economists should really discuss "internalities" as the exception and "externalities" as the rule.
We should return to the vocabulary of Fred Engels, who contrasted the socialization of production with the individualization of appropriation (of property rights and incomes).
Jim
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