Middlemen: From Mancgere to Amazon
The Answer Is Transaction Costs
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Bastiat notes that many claim that the state should always perform the function of middlemen more efficiently. He says it is impossible to imagine an organization more completely calculated than those who are in want. Bastia: Without middlemen, the state would act more slowly and at the wrong times.
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