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What is the problem with markets, and how would "you" fix them?
A market brings parties together, that supply and demand self- regulate each other; resources balance by simply allowing free price dissemination. It is a coming together of business interests to achieve collective benefit. Markets themselves work better with "more" consumers, "more products and a sound financial bedrock, a stable rule of law and a morally endowed democratic government ensuring human rights.
If human rights are undermined and people are destroyed by the microeconomic climate, what is to be done, lest you yourself are a neoliberal intending to "fix" the world with markets, as indeed it is the capitalist religion. Perhaps the world needn't be fixed. And to cast a second stone in a pond ripples more than the first.
I envision a massive complex of computers running a similar software to NASDAQ, except with a complex, multi market work-flow system that links together raw resource damage, CO2 emissions, Water and Land damage markets. The markets could be linked simultaneiously to "multiprice" a company with a super-fat public datawarehousing FACT row. With a single global CME-like exchange incorporating free markets for all resources. This would price the economic toll on public goods (environment, space, resources and labour) of otherwise finance-linked society. Without goodwill, no contracts are born. Markets of today are on a collision course with the limited resources of this very generous planet. If they don't adapt, there'll be problems.
There is no goodwill when markets are not pricing public goods consumed, and "footprint". Markets are not divorced from the guns and the proliferation of war. as none of us wants a next war, by this imperfect religion. The religion is making war at a scale inconceivable in the last century.
With satellite guidance and massive military deployment, states can fight over the rights to energy, and water. Whilst a free market fails to feed millions, it is creating an arms race.
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