Markets fail to provide public goods, and that is what the governments are supposed to do
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." - I dunno, nothing about the providing "public goods" here.
After all I've shown, if you deny that Mann was:
you're either in denial or you are merely gainsaying my statements of fact.
Constitution is not economics. And, incidentally, at that time, there was no knowlege of distinction between the public and private goods. We did not know that the speed of light is maximal possible either. It's been a while, you know.
Constitution, however much I revere it, is not the place to which one turns to learn phyiscs. Or mathematics. Or economics.
I understand your point of view on Mann. I very much appreciate your detailed exposisition. I am sorry to say, however, that I did not find your arguments convinicing. Thanks again for writing.