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    Economics / Diane Coyle, economic theory, efficiency, Elizabeth Popp Berman, technocracy /

    Thinking like an Economist?

    May 18, 2022

    Thinking like an economist. What a horrible thought.  Can you imagine anything more restrictive and less imaginative?  It requires you to disengage from reality and enter a world constrained by absurd assumptions, odd definitions, and a lack of foundation.  The entire edifice of economics sits, in all its glory, suspended in mid-air and relying on […]

    Commentary, Economics / capitalism, democracy, efficiency, free trade, pandemic, The Economist, Ukraine /

    Free to Trade Efficiency?

    March 23, 2022

    Fascinating. The war in Europe is messing with some major preconceptions and exposing some as illusions that, perhaps, we would be better off without. Take, for instance, The Economist magazine’s leader article entitled “Trading with the enemy.”  Here’s the key question the article poses: “Is it prudent for open societies to conduct normal economic relations […]

    Commentary / Balibar, capitalism, democracy, Furet /

    A Note on Furet

    March 3, 2022

    Intellectual vanities abound in a technocratic society.  It seems inevitable that as we push the boundaries of knowledge further and further into the space of potential beyond our current state that the division of labor presses down on us.  We become, each of us, more distant from any sense of self-sufficiency.  Such a state is […]

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