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Commented on The cult of justice
Here's a fairly decent review of the aforementioned book....
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Commented on The cult of justice
Let me put in a plug for The Evolution of God. I don't know how universal this is, but according to Wright, the Big Three Abrahamic religions were political instruments from the get-go....
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Commented on Trotskyite singularitarians for Monarchism! A political speculation.
What a koinky-dink! Krugman just put up a piece about the importance of economic history - I like the crack about new economic thinking means reading old books....
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Commented on Trotskyite singularitarians for Monarchism! A political speculation.
That 'Bullshit Jobs' meme as been making the rounds lately. Noah Smith (as in Noah Opinion by way of Thoma's blog Economist's View) has this piece about jobs creating real value. Not quite what Graeber has to say, though he's...
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Commented on Trotskyite singularitarians for Monarchism! A political speculation.
1) Keynesian full employment policies. I see no shortage of socially useful work for humans to do; I see a shortage of willingness to pay for it, BINGO! Iow, yeah the old struggles have been given a facelift, but really...
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Commented on Trotskyite singularitarians for Monarchism! A political speculation.
It's worth noting that we have a world with free movement of capital -- which can generate value by applying labour (human or machine) to raw materials -- but not free movement for labour (we have ever-tightening immigration laws). The...
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Commented on Trotskyite singularitarians for Monarchism! A political speculation.
People and power are like gravitating bodies - them's that have the most tend to get more....