I like the idea of how to use markets to ‘solve’ health and esp. the illustrative example. Reminds me of David Friedman’s approach so solve law (see Anarchy and Efficient Law).
One nitpick regarding the post: It is really two: The health market and the vitamin D story. These are even clearly consecutive. I also do not see a clear connection between them except in your narrative. Why not post separatedly?
ADDED: And the title is misleading. It only relates to the opener, not the meat of the post.
David Friedman has been on the web forever—I read his stuff back in the 90′s I think and it influenced me.
Yes it is two posts in one. I wanted an example to more concretely illustrate something that is really an information problem that a computational market could work better for. This ended up being it’s own post inside the post as I got into writing it.
Got a better title idea? It relates to the overall metaphor.
I like the idea of how to use markets to ‘solve’ health and esp. the illustrative example. Reminds me of David Friedman’s approach so solve law (see Anarchy and Efficient Law).
One nitpick regarding the post: It is really two: The health market and the vitamin D story. These are even clearly consecutive. I also do not see a clear connection between them except in your narrative. Why not post separatedly?
ADDED: And the title is misleading. It only relates to the opener, not the meat of the post.
David Friedman has been on the web forever—I read his stuff back in the 90′s I think and it influenced me.
Yes it is two posts in one. I wanted an example to more concretely illustrate something that is really an information problem that a computational market could work better for. This ended up being it’s own post inside the post as I got into writing it.
Got a better title idea? It relates to the overall metaphor.