heories of perception not fact. —“We suggest that most theories about political effects of inequality need to be either abandoned or reframed as theories about the effects of perceived inequality”— …
EFINITIONS OF TRUTH. TAUTOLOGICAL TRUTH: That testimony you give when you promising the equality of two statements using different terms: A circular definition, a statement of equality or a statement of …
PRIVILEGE (DISCOUNTS ON OPPORTUNITY COSTS) AS INFORMATION —Hayek’s point about distributed knowledge applies to more than just economic issues. It also applies to social issues.—- RE: http://ow.ly/Ln3uF hile, as I’ve …
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he question is better served by how we spend our time, what we consume, and what we worry about, than any measure of income. Income is a poor proxy for …
(profound) ’ve been arguing for two decades that we have had 500 years of ‘unusual’ as we spread the voluntary organization of production around the world (often by force), and …
(worth repeating) ropertarianism is like learning any other formal logic. It is non-trivial. But what you get from the effort of learning it is explanatory power. Unfortunately I am a …
(worth repeating) ll, Thank you for asking me to respond. I didn’t respond on LessWrong’s site because (honestly) I thought it was a rather pointless argument. But I’ll convert it …
assim (re: violence) I’d like to add an economist’s point of view: that the use of the term ‘violence’ is obscurant. (In my lexicon that is equivalent to pseudoscientific). Humans …
am singling out John Quiggin here. And singling him out, perhaps unfairly, because like anyone else, he is an econometrician flirting with philosophy that is far over his head – a …
he greeks just couldn’t figure out what they meant by “Goodness”. But, I have. It’s productivity on the Obverse, and prohibition of free riding on the Reverse. It’s do not unto …
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(a) Because we invented a new form of culture: a purely commercial one, absent of hierarchy.(b) Because we invented a new form of constitution and government by adapting the British …
onservatism, has failed because the enlightenment fallacy of an aristocracy of everyone could never come into being. Darwin put an end to it. We tried to turn our ancient aristocratic …