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Re:I have a bad feeling about this by mbell on Thursday February 09, 2012 @03:21AM (#3570256)
>I'm against quantifying it at all because, while useful, price is a very limited metric. There are numerous cases where you can increase the transaction sum and achieve 0 value increase, eg. monopolistic pricing in a market with inelastic demand or bad investing (destroying capital) or externalities, etc.

I'm pretty confused as to how you first define that you don't want to quantify it but then one sentence later make a quantitative declaration ("achieve 0 value increase..."). How does this work?

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Re:I have a bad feeling about this by moonchrome on Thursday February 09, 2012 @03:26AM (#3570262)
Zero means nothing, absence of extra value, that can be established on qualitative grounds - but true it doesn't have to be strictly 0 it just means there is no proportional value added.
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