This is fascinating. Lately I've been thinking that our society is paying the "price of anarchy" in many areas other than traffic congestion. For example, the food industry markets and sells us processed, nutrient-deficient foods that costs our society billions in health care and lost productivity. Those billions are much more than it would cost us to locally grow and sell whole, natural, nutritious foods. The mortgage crisis, of course, is another example. And then there was GM's decision to kill the extremely successful EV1. These are all examples of huge costs imposed by a selfish few. It seems the Invisible Hand lifts only so far; it can also push and keep us down. - Jared Jacobs