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Cognitive Footprint: July 2011
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Saturday, July 23, 2011. The Manufactured "Debt Crisis" and the American Ideology of Debt. Preliminary note: for the few people who read this blog, the economic analysis will be self-evident. But it still really has to be said. Again and again and again.]. Are we clear about this? So, under what circumstances would debt become "bad" for the US government (or any government)?
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Cognitive Footprint: July 2012
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Thursday, July 5, 2012. The ACA and Social Obligations. In an attempt to return to blogging - some thoughts here in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling on health care (Though by now perhaps the subject is dated. But I’m trying still to work out my own views on the ACA. It’s possible that by the end of this post I will.). Would Ginsburg have voted to strike it down?
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Cognitive Footprint: November 2010
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Thursday, November 4, 2010. Engels on the Election. Thanks to Armagan Gezici. For posting this gem). The full letter by Engels can be found here). Links to this post. Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Rand Paul, Inchoate Marxist. Rand Paul, on Election Night, Nov 2, 2010. Karl Marx, from "Wage-Labor and Capital". The interests of the capitalist and those of the worker are, therefor...
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Cognitive Footprint: No Guns for Cops
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Saturday, March 21, 2015. No Guns for Cops. Just watched a video. Of a cop shooting dead a mentally ill black person who wouldn't put down a screwdriver. And I've read all the predictable defenses. "Hey, a screwdriver can be deadly"! How about this as an alternative? No guns for cops. Or at least they don't get to carry them on a regular basis. So the police are safer. When ...
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Cognitive Footprint: Revisiting Walras and Naturalism
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Sunday, February 9, 2014. Revisiting Walras and Naturalism. Universe - that we are beings with free will. And endowed with reason. As such, as we are not mere things. Walras sets out his person/thing distinction as follows:. The fact that man's will is cognitive and free makes it possible to divide every entity in the universe into two great classes: persons. We may divide t...
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Cognitive Footprint: March 2015
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Saturday, March 21, 2015. No Guns for Cops. Just watched a video. Of a cop shooting dead a mentally ill black person who wouldn't put down a screwdriver. And I've read all the predictable defenses. "Hey, a screwdriver can be deadly"! How about this as an alternative? No guns for cops. Or at least they don't get to carry them on a regular basis. So the police are safer. When ...
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Cognitive Footprint: Naturalism and Economics: What Is At Stake?
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Wednesday, August 29, 2012. Naturalism and Economics: What Is At Stake? In previous posts ( here. I examined whether Walras was committed to naturalism in economic thought. I concluded that he is hopelessly contradictory on the subject. But I never articulated what I think is at stake in the question generally. It might be useful to do so here. This kind of ontological commi...
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Cognitive Footprint: More on Walras
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Monday, August 20, 2012. A follow up to my post. On on Walras and naturalism. Walras’ near-religious commitment to the notion of political economy as a natural science appears throughout his work. For example, he wrote that he wanted to create. 8230;a new science: the science of economic forces analogous to the science of astronomical forces. And on exchange-value, he writes:.
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Cognitive Footprint: Netanyahu's Racism, Israel's Racism
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Thursday, March 19, 2015. Netanyahu's Racism, Israel's Racism. Voting. Said Netanyahu: " Arab voters are coming in droves to the ballot boxes. Left-wing NGOs bring them in buses. His comments were predictably denounced. Historical Palestine was (it just so happens) Arab. And entirely irrespective of how violent or peaceful they are (that is, per the terms of the usual discou...
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Cognitive Footprint: The Orwellian Language of "Job Creation" (Or: "Free Market" does not equal "Capitalism")
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Friday, August 13, 2010. The Orwellian Language of "Job Creation" (Or: "Free Market" does not equal "Capitalism"). At the outset of almost every intro economics textbook, we are told that there, at bottom, two ways of organizing economic structures - the "free market" and "command and control.". Would you rather be free - or commanded and controlled? Well, let's look at "com...
