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Through most of the history of the industrial era, markets were seen as a fit tool for organising a small piece of human endeavour, while the rest of life – the military, volunteerism, families, public service – were outside the marketplace. Markets may be good at organising scarce goods, and they may even be good at organising abundant ones, but do abundant goods really need organising?
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