"The Invisible Helping Hand" - Food Banks and the Free Market

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The Invisible Helping Hand

This article is a fascinating look at how a market bidding system was introduced to non-profit food banks to make them much more efficient.

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Using a bidding system and free markets to make it more efficient was cool.

Changing the "money" supply and having a Federal Reserve-type system to even things out was smart.

Having credits spent on something split by the rest of the groups was brilliant.

(Hat tip credit to kottke.org)