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“What is Distribution in the Market Process?”

Abstract: It is a commonplace of the current learned diagnoses that modern technology has all but abolished the resistances of nature to the physical production and transportation of goods. Distribution is regarded as less well developed—as the open or broken link between our needs and their ful­fillment, between desire and gratification. To concede this should suggest not that the current processes of distribution should be attacked or abolished but rather that they should be examined and understood, for it should be remem­bered that distribution, for all its difficulties, does at least measurably take place and, like any other phenomena, it can be understood only in terms of its functioning and carrying on and never in terms of its non-functioning or failure to do so.

Keywords: Distribution, market process, ownership, land, productivity

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August 10, 2017, By Stephan Kinsella (Editor) Filed Under: Libertarian Papers, Volume 9 (2017)

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