Trump has inserted his S.A. & S.S. stormtroopers into Republican legislators' brains; Thomas More: "But for Wales?"; selling your soul to get into "þe room where it happens" never works; very...
But then the Yamnaya came along with the triple technologies of lactose tolerance, riding horses and wheeled vehicles and Indo-European languages are spoken as a first language from Alaska to Bengal and as a second language everywhere.
I agree with everything except that the Libertarian" position is a misreading specifically of Smith. I think a more common route to that position is the odd utility function that maximizes income with no distribution weights GIVEN any arbitrary distribution of assets (although they would claim it is just the result of "non-coercion."
“William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”
Re: Economic History: Doug Jones: First farmers: ‘8.80 – 8.33 thousand years ago…. Agricultural populations… replace hunter-gatherers, even though they are probably worse fed and sicker on average. The DNA evidence shows that in Europe it’s mostly replacement we’re talking about, not just the spread of new technologies
Jones:
But then the Yamnaya came along with the triple technologies of lactose tolerance, riding horses and wheeled vehicles and Indo-European languages are spoken as a first language from Alaska to Bengal and as a second language everywhere.
Deaton,
I agree with everything except that the Libertarian" position is a misreading specifically of Smith. I think a more common route to that position is the odd utility function that maximizes income with no distribution weights GIVEN any arbitrary distribution of assets (although they would claim it is just the result of "non-coercion."
Quite wonderful, but I more remember:
“William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”
Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”
William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”
Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!”
"the soft bigotry of low expectations applies not juist in spades but in hearts, diamonds, clubs, and major arcana"
That was a moment to have invoked the Least Trumps from John Crowley's novel Little, Big.
Touché...
Re: Economic History: Doug Jones: First farmers: ‘8.80 – 8.33 thousand years ago…. Agricultural populations… replace hunter-gatherers, even though they are probably worse fed and sicker on average. The DNA evidence shows that in Europe it’s mostly replacement we’re talking about, not just the spread of new technologies
I immediately thought of Oklahoma:
The farmer and the cowman should be friends.
Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends.