| Response to Mr. Merlin Jetton's Critique of My Essays on Road Privatization Part 32 |
| Published: November 25, 2008, 5:00 am |
| Tags: Economics, Politics, Arguments, Congestion, Construction, Debate, Efficient, Entrepreneur, Free Enterprise, Free Market, Freedom, Government, Ideas, Inefficient, Maintenance, Market, Private, Private Enterprise, Privatization, Public, Repairs, Road, Roads, Traffic |
| How to Privatize the Roads: The Mechanisms and Benefits of Road Privatization. Regarding my argument that private road entrepreneurs would be more likely to make roads initially sufficiently wide so that future inconvenient widenings would not be required as often, Mr. Jetton writes: Why will a private road builder buy unneeded |
| Response to Mr. Merlin Jetton's Critique of My Essays on Road Privatization Part 31 |
| Published: November 24, 2008, 5:00 am |
| Tags: Economics, Politics, Arguments, Congestion, Construction, Debate, Efficient, Entrepreneur, Free Enterprise, Free Market, Freedom, Government, Ideas, Inefficient, Maintenance, Market, Private, Private Enterprise, Privatization, Public, Repairs, Road, Roads, Traffic |
| tolls for some individual private roads might be higher in some cases than tolls for some individual government roads today, but no individual private road (of comparable or slightly better quality than government roads today) will have tolls that are much higher than tolls on government-controlled toll roads today. However, since many more |
| Response to Mr. Merlin Jetton's Critique of My Essays on Road Privatization Part 30 |
| Published: November 23, 2008, 5:00 am |
| Tags: Economics, Politics, Arguments, Congestion, Construction, Debate, Efficient, Entrepreneur, Free Enterprise, Free Market, Freedom, Government, Ideas, Inefficient, Maintenance, Market, Private, Private Enterprise, Privatization, Public, Repairs, Road, Roads, Traffic |
| How to Privatize the Roads: The Mechanisms and Benefits of Road Privatization. In response to my raising the possibility that mobile construction barriers might exist under private road ownership, Mr. Jetton writes: I am curious to learn what efficiency is gained by putting retractable rollers on cones or barrels that are easily |
| Response to Mr. Merlin Jetton's Critique of My Essays on Road Privatization Part 29 |
| Published: November 22, 2008, 5:00 am |
| Tags: Economics, Politics, Arguments, Congestion, Construction, Debate, Efficient, Entrepreneur, Free Enterprise, Free Market, Freedom, Government, Ideas, Inefficient, Maintenance, Market, Private, Private Enterprise, Privatization, Public, Repairs, Road, Roads, Traffic |
| the divergent qualities of private apartments to the divergent qualities of private roads. I continued by refining the analogy, comparing private services to government services in each realm. However, to make the analogy still more accurate, I would venture to argue that fully private roads would experience less deterioration due to |
| Response to Mr. Merlin Jetton's Critique of My Essays on Road Privatization Part 25 |
| Published: November 17, 2008, 5:00 am |
| Tags: Economics, Politics, Congestion, Cost, Economic Model, Entrepreneur, Free Market, Government, Income, Maintenance, Market, Model, Owner, Present Value, Price, Private, Privatization, Profit, Revenue, Road, Roads, Traffic |
| How to Privatize the Roads: The Mechanisms and Benefits of Road Privatization. With regard to my suggestion that private road owners might create mobile barriers for construction sites barriers that can be remotely controlled or programmed to achieve relocation along with the construction site Mr. Jetton writes: Very funny. |
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