Seven hours on the road from Chester and we’re finally home, sixteen days and 2518 miles later. We averaged about 50 mpg in the Prius: up to 55 mpg in gentle mountain terrain and as low as 44 mpg on I-5 at 70 mph.
Here’s a Google Map of our travels; I’ll be filling in the [...]
Introit
In a market economy with imperfect and asymmetric information and incomplete markets -- which is to say, every market economy -- the reason that Adam Smith's invisible hand is invisible is that it does not exist. Economies are not efficient on their own.



