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1. matthe+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-04-08 11:23:21
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I will check that out.

In between you doing that and me thinking on it overnight, I ended up writing up my thoughts as a blog post [0], which I have submitted here to HN as well [1].

[0]: https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0177-what-if-we-taxed-adver...

[1]: >>43620407

replies(1): >>gsf_em+t22
2. gsf_em+t22[view] [source] 2025-04-09 02:01:01
>>matthe+(OP)
https://economics.stackexchange.com/a/29598

[0] Slightly tangentially, to be ignored, until later (after careful reconsideration of doubts raised in your [1]: https://economics.stackexchange.com/a/29610[2])

In particular, to consider how unification of the 2 notions of excludability/rivalry can lead to the 2 actions of subsidies/taxation coalescing (thus going "beyond good & evil")

[2] >>43621295

[4] https://www.econlib.org/the-correlation-between-excludabilit...

>Yet in the real world, both excludability and rivalry lie on a continuum.

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