Mikey Avelly

National defence is usually considered an essential social function that benefits the entire national population and that is directly...

There are organisations called ‘government’ and there are activities called government or governance. It is the failure of these to align...

Key questions to ask about any social activity are: 1) How essential is it; 2) How many providers are there; 3) How many consumers are...

The basic worldview being argued for here is that we cease thinking about economic sectors and instead just talk about social functions....

To the degree that a good or service is essential and provided by a monopoly then it will be more or less entirely controlled by...

It is quite possible for something to be called ‘government’ that does not, in practice, govern.

Sometime not long after the Second World War the concept of ‘market failure’ emerged. In some contexts, this concept was used to justify...

A private sector organisation that plays a vital role in social functioning may be protected from closure by government. It maybe a...

Any social function has one or more actors involved with it, and it is more or less vital to the functioning of the society. By vital is...

There is doing and there is deciding what to do. Deciding what to do (goal setting) is the same thing as developing policy. Once policy...