I said we'd probably be in agreement. . . LOL!. . . and so would Sowell. I think you are erroneous in disagreeing with Sowell on scant evidence from a 500 word essay, is all. Sorry about my wording.
I sure hope your patent DOES invalidate that damn idiotic idea of trading carbon credits. . .
We can be two or four of those economists who laid end to end will never reach a conclusion. Just don't kick too hard. . .
Sowell is too busy pontificating at a kindergarten level to really grapple with this kind of topic, partly because he lacks the technical background in ecology I now have. When I was writing the book, he refused to even look at a summary despite the fact that it had quantitative analyses of what he was writing about in principle. I was so far ahead of where he was going it was pathetic, showing how free markets using the lowered cost of massive data analysis and communications with intelligent agents drafting contracts could optimize the balance among the myriad possibilities in ecological resource land uses with currently intangible and unaccounted aperiodic risks and industrial demands. It left those idiots at Stanford touting Gretchen Daily and their "nature's services" scam in the dust. Henry Lamb told me in 1999 it would be fifty years before people would be ready for it. Hi might have been right, but somebody had to do it.