Comments on: Private Provision of Public Goods, Mario Puzo Edition http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/05/12/private-provision-of-public-goods-mario-puzo-edition/ Economics of organizations, strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, and more Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:27:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David Hoopes http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/05/12/private-provision-of-public-goods-mario-puzo-edition/#comment-24005 Tue, 22 May 2007 04:52:14 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/05/12/private-provision-of-public-goods-mario-puzo-edition/#comment-24005 I’m a bit surprised George Schultze is saddled for Iran-Contra responsibility. The State Department was left out of the loop on that deal. I remember when he was before Congress. He said something to the effect of, “People say that the State Department can’t negotiate very well. Yet here they traded hostages for weapons. What kind of deal is that?” I thought he was great before the Senate.

]]> By: Libertarians on The Godfather, Part II « EconLog http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/05/12/private-provision-of-public-goods-mario-puzo-edition/#comment-22993 Wed, 16 May 2007 00:00:13 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/05/12/private-provision-of-public-goods-mario-puzo-edition/#comment-22993 [...] You’ve read Somin; now try Peter Klein. [...]

]]> By: Peter Klein http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/05/12/private-provision-of-public-goods-mario-puzo-edition/#comment-22969 Tue, 15 May 2007 19:53:22 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/05/12/private-provision-of-public-goods-mario-puzo-edition/#comment-22969 Quite right, my apologies to Ilya. Now fixed.

]]> By: asg http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/05/12/private-provision-of-public-goods-mario-puzo-edition/#comment-22968 Tue, 15 May 2007 19:51:26 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/05/12/private-provision-of-public-goods-mario-puzo-edition/#comment-22968 Pretty sure Ilya Somin’s a guy :)

]]> By: Peter Klein http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/05/12/private-provision-of-public-goods-mario-puzo-edition/#comment-22827 Mon, 14 May 2007 20:18:18 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/05/12/private-provision-of-public-goods-mario-puzo-edition/#comment-22827 Hmmmm, maybe Akerlof’s theory of gift exchange applies here? (I’m sure our sociologist friends will have something to say about this. . . .)

]]> By: Matt Elliott http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/05/12/private-provision-of-public-goods-mario-puzo-edition/#comment-22722 Mon, 14 May 2007 03:55:50 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/05/12/private-provision-of-public-goods-mario-puzo-edition/#comment-22722 I’m surprised that you didn’t talk about opportunism with this examiniation of mafia organization and behavior. As you highlighted in your discussion, the opening scene, of the original Godfather, showed how the mafia protection was offered in absence of government protection, but unlike the government that asks for basic taxes, the mafia ‘would call on you to perform a service to your Don in the future…and you must accept’ Granted in the first movie the service asked of the mortician, to fix Sonny’s mangled corpse, was not an extreme request. However, the second movie implicity layed out how Fredo was forced to sell out his brother MIchael Corleone to Hyman Roth and the Risotto brothers so Fredo could create something for the family “on his own”.

]]> By: Kevin Carson http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/05/12/private-provision-of-public-goods-mario-puzo-edition/#comment-22565 Sun, 13 May 2007 06:32:49 +0000 http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2007/05/12/private-provision-of-public-goods-mario-puzo-edition/#comment-22565 A friend of mine grew up in Reno, and he noted the a.most total absence of petty street crime in areas under Mafia contol.

That scene from The Godfather brought a chuckle. It brought to mind a quip from Secretary of State George Schultz during an appearance before the Senate in the mid-80s. They were holding hearings on the anti-apartheid movement, and Schultz chided an ANC-friendly Senator by saying (rough paraphrase) “I can’t believe someone in this august body would actually sit here and advocate violence.” This from a guy who typically ordered death rained from the skies on six countries before breakfast–not to mention the Contras and Salvadoran death squads, trained in the fine arts of torture, murder and disappearance at Ft. Benning, were turning disembowelment and decapitation into an art form.

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