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RichardKennaway comments on How should negative externalities be handled? (Warning: politics) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 09 May 2013 01:11:30PM *  2 points [-]

Where does each shopkeeping homo economicus get their data?

By looking around their local environment. Homo economicus does not mean someone who has perfect information about everything in the entire system.

Besides that, homines economici each have their own goals to achieve. What goal is the central planning computer trying to achieve?