Coming homework apocalypse; southeast Asia; Albert & Carroll on quantum, Boltzmann, & þe fine-tuning; & Alloway & Joe Weisenthal, Heath, Koop, and Sharma on inflation, large-scale human cooperative...
Contra the quote of Joseph Heath, 'The Dawn of Everything' shows that for much of human history, huge portions of continents managed well without market economics.
He also ignores corporations which are socialist internally. Isn't the whole point of the corporate form to be able to take from the more productive sections of the corporation to provide for those that are essential but less productive? Without those socialist cross subsidies, corporations couldn't survive. Corporations rely on central planning even at the expense of their components, and, when they can get away with it, they combine with other corporations to centrally plan for the entire industry.
Why do some people approve of socialism within the corporation while opposing it outside? My guess is that they approve of the authoritarian structure of the corporate command economy as opposed to the messy political and social structure outside the corporate world. One can imagine writing an excellent book of business advice based on the teachings of Joseph Stalin if one didn't use his name in it.
McDermott is a member of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board and part of the power structure of St. Louis that centers around the Post-Dispatch. Even in the P-D's final days of terminal decline it still wields power far beyond its current economic or journalistic resources, and it has been fighting hard against any progressive leadership in St. Louis trying to solve problems since most of those solutions come with he cost of the old white guys who run the city and county losing a sliver of their power and wealth. It is deeply rich for McDermott to take to the pages of the New York Times to criticize living conditions in the city when he has had a large part in making those conditions what they are.
Vladimir Ilyich’s apparently careless choice of conjunction–“shoot and deport” rather than “shoot or deport”–may have led to some confusion among his correspondents. “Why does he want us to shoot them and then deport them? Wouldn’t it be better to deport them before they’re shot?”
I think the homework problem is going to result in even more of results depending on "non-cognitive" aspects of personality which we have even less idea about how to foster than cognitive ability.
Contra the quote of Joseph Heath, 'The Dawn of Everything' shows that for much of human history, huge portions of continents managed well without market economics.
He also ignores corporations which are socialist internally. Isn't the whole point of the corporate form to be able to take from the more productive sections of the corporation to provide for those that are essential but less productive? Without those socialist cross subsidies, corporations couldn't survive. Corporations rely on central planning even at the expense of their components, and, when they can get away with it, they combine with other corporations to centrally plan for the entire industry.
Why do some people approve of socialism within the corporation while opposing it outside? My guess is that they approve of the authoritarian structure of the corporate command economy as opposed to the messy political and social structure outside the corporate world. One can imagine writing an excellent book of business advice based on the teachings of Joseph Stalin if one didn't use his name in it.
Well, it depends in who the central planning is for, doesn't it? "Who, whom", after all...
Cui bono?
Indeed...
_I_ would not consider the life of a hunter-gatherer "managing well" :)
Although it's a long book, it's rich in detailing modern myths such as that hunter-gather life was harder than agricultural work.
That is exactly the reason I'm not a big fan of the book. It "debunks" too many myths that are already know not to be true. :)
McDermott is a member of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board and part of the power structure of St. Louis that centers around the Post-Dispatch. Even in the P-D's final days of terminal decline it still wields power far beyond its current economic or journalistic resources, and it has been fighting hard against any progressive leadership in St. Louis trying to solve problems since most of those solutions come with he cost of the old white guys who run the city and county losing a sliver of their power and wealth. It is deeply rich for McDermott to take to the pages of the New York Times to criticize living conditions in the city when he has had a large part in making those conditions what they are.
Vladimir Ilyich’s apparently careless choice of conjunction–“shoot and deport” rather than “shoot or deport”–may have led to some confusion among his correspondents. “Why does he want us to shoot them and then deport them? Wouldn’t it be better to deport them before they’re shot?”
I think the homework problem is going to result in even more of results depending on "non-cognitive" aspects of personality which we have even less idea about how to foster than cognitive ability.