Moving beyond "Reputation"--the Market View of Reality

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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On 1 Dec 2001, at 8:18, georgemw at speakeasy.net wrote:
> I'm surprised I've gotten so much disagreement over this, 
> particularly since my original statement was much weaker
> than it could have been.  For reputation to have a single
> well defined value it is necessary but not sufficient that
> there be a market in reputations; it must be a COMMODITIZED
> market.

Not so.

Something has a single well defined value to its possessor
without any need for it to be commoditized.

For an item to have a single well defined market value it
needs to be commoditized, but that is a different issue. 

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         James A. Donald
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