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On Thu, 11 May 2000, Chuck Palson wrote:
>this list and elsewhere. For social utility to have any meaning -- and
>testability -- it has to start with the various strategies that physical persons
>use in a society to acquire the goods and services they need to survive. Access
Goods, services, AND, perhaps more importantly, emotional and aesthetic
values. I suspect it is the latter that confound the economists and
sociologists <grin>
Cheers
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