ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


             I am grateful for Salim Rashid's collaboration on Chapter 4, and his

             permission to use our joint work in the book.  I appreciate

             usefulcomments on earlier drafts by Dieter Helm, Nathaniel Leff,

             Shlomo Maital, John Pencavel, Walter Primeaux, Edward Rice, James

             Smith, and Aaron Wildavsky.  I benefited from the opportunity to

             discuss some of this material at the Austrian Seminar at New York

             Univeristy.

                  Stephen Moore provided excellent research assistance of many

             sorts.  The Word Processing Center at the College of Commerce at the

             Unitersity of Illinois, headed by Carol Halliday, did a superb job

             typing the various chunks of the manuscripript.  And Helen Demarest

             put the finishing touches on the typescript with her usual good cheer,

             good sense, and dedication to the job.  Thank you all.


                                           Julian L. Simon

                                           Passover, 1986