Why Not A Free Market In Privacy?

leviramsey writes: "Julian Sanchez has written an article analyzing the privacy debate and suggesting a free market solution to the privacy issue on Liberzine.com. Very interesting idea that seems to make sense to me." While this essay doesn't lay out how this market might work in practice, it raises the interesting and often scoffed-at idea that sometimes we like to trade some of our privacy for various things, online and off, as a visit to Yahoo personals will prove.