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The Everyday Economist 
Markets fail, use markets.
An anarchist friend of mine admitted the existence of government itself might be proof that market failures exist. Is a government a form of market power and creates negative externalities that markets can’t find a “solution” to? Do governments exist because they assign themselves property rights through coercion?