@beto_themonster Because of transaction costs. Coase argues that when transaction costs are high, it is much harder to solve problems related to conflicts over property, public goods, and the existence of externalities.
@beto_themonster Not really. Externalities are antithetical to economic growth, and there are many processes systems can use to tackle them. Coase wrote about this.
@beto_themonster Yeah, externalities are bad, never claimed they weren't. That's why I've been putting a lot of effort into steel-manning you on that point.
@beto_themonster Then you misunderstand what economic growth is. As I stated time and time again, economic growth is using the same resources more efficiently. The only time that isn't the case is in regard to externalities.
@beto_themonster No, the market economy isn't a finite system because the ontological reality of the state of the universe has nothing to do with an economic system. Every economic system has to deal with scarcity, because as previously mentioned, that's the reality we live in.