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Middlemen: From Mancgere to Amazon
About this Episode
Does Starbucks have surge pricing?
What is a Mancgere?
Should the Stomach go to the Wheat, or should the Wheat come to the Stomach?
Plus, the TWEJ!
Some things discussed this week:
Michael Munger, "Market Makers or Parasites" https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2009/Mungermiddlemen.html
Frederic Bastiat, WHAT IS SEEN AND UNSEEN. https://www.econlib.org/book-chapters/chapter-chapter-1-what-is-seen-and-what-is-not-seen/
Frederic Bastiat, "The Negative Railroad." https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/negative-railroad
David Friedman, HIDDEN ORDER. http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/2041/1/47.pdf.pdf
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