Agrarian farmer A produces 25 units of edible staples with 10 units of grain. Agrarian farmer B produces 50 units of edible staples with 10 units of grain. I’ll prefer the latter.
Well, no…the market utopianist would. The person who realizes the concentrative effects of market power would realize the shallow nature of such a claim, as I explored in my first post on the forum. It’s curious, because I’ve become quite accustomed to the junior Misesians across the Net rejecting every single study in existence because of their insistence that the inability of social science to completely isolate all variables renders them all useless. It’s certainly a shift to find someone claiming that raw data without any controls whatsoever proves anything, though if it lines up with your preconceived ideological biases, I can see why it would be tempting.