| Preach. Peter Drucker, in the 90s, encouraged businesses to emulate non-profit organizations. He was popularizing case studies which showed some of the most effective, efficient orgs in the world were non-profits. From wiki: "The importance of the nonprofit sector,[35] which he calls the third sector (private sector and the Government sector being the first two). Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) play crucial roles in the economies of countries around the world." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker#Key_ideas -- I like your use of "metrics". I usually frame market design in terms of "incentives", but I might adopt your frame. Price discovery and surplus (profit) are not the only possible metrics. Markets can, and have been, designed to optimize pretty much every other conceivable goal as well. But the thrall of corporatism (aka Freedom Markets™) keeps those alternatives out of public discourse. Anything not optimized for surplus (profit) is dismissed with pejoratives like socialism. |