What accounts for people doing household chores themselves, even those who can afford to pay others to perform the drudgery? The do-it-yourself mentality largely reflects an antimarket bias that views transactions as a zero- or negative-sum game.

Ryan H. Murphy is a research associate at the O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom in the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business.
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