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That would be economically efficient in two senses: 1) the utility of Dunaway's eye mask would be maximized by placing it with the person who can extract the greatest pleasure from it (just as, uncertainty aside, the highest bidder for an oil field will be the person who can extract the most oil from it); and 2) that person would pay no more for the eye mask than the pleasure of owning it was worth to him.
Many of the DOE's functions, like owning oil (the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) and oil fields (the Naval Petroleum Reserve), can be privatized.
Among his targets was a cover-story headline that read: “How the Media Encourages Violence, Yet Discourages Women from Owning Guns.”
Traffic jams and ugly interchanges are annoying, but most people would gladly accept that annoyance in exchange for the freedom that comes with owning a car (and more to the point, being wealthy enough to afford one).
The start of asset inflation in the 1980s led to the “bubble economy,” with anyone owning land becoming richer by the minute.