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Freud Distracted Intellectual Progress As Much As Did Marx
FREUD WAS A FOOL AND AS MUCH OF AN INTELLECTUAL DISASTER FOR MANKIND AS MARX [H]umans are driven by status signals. The purpose of status signals may in fact INCLUDE access to reproduction, but that is only one of the may uses of signals. Without signals we cannot know whom to imitate. Without those signals […]
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Is Austrian Economics Falsifiable?
COMMENTS ON THE COMMENTS ABOVE 1) Falsification requires the failure of an empirical test, sufficient to contradict the theory. The purpose of falsification is to require us to rely on evidence that is unobtainable by our senses alone, and independent of the frailty and error of the mind and its perceptions. None of the criticisms […]
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“Women Do Everything Here” : The Absence of Chivalry In The Byzantines
“I cook, I clean, I work, and my husband sits on the couch demanding beer. Women do everything here. We want to be soft. But we can’t be.” – Nikka. [C]hivalry is yet another positive western value constructed by the church. I often write how the church granted women property rights, and forbid cousin-marriage out […]
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Why Should A Person Believe In Austrian Economics?
It is not a question of ‘belief’. There are five or six different strategic economic biases in favor of a different set of levers for encouraging an economy. These different levers vary from the fastest and most redistributive and distorting to the slowest, least redistributive and distorting. They are loosely Modern Monetary (fastest), Monetarism, Fiscal […]