Curt Doolittle

Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

  • PRAXEOLOGY: THE PROBLEM, MURRAY, IS THAT THOSE CATEGORIES? THEY’RE ALL FALSE. So

    PRAXEOLOGY: THE PROBLEM, MURRAY, IS THAT THOSE CATEGORIES? THEY’RE ALL FALSE.

    Sorry Murray. Just how it is: Nonsense. On. Stilts.

    Rothbard’s False Praxeological Categories

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    A. The Theory of the Isolated Individual (Crusoe Economics)

    B. The Theory of Voluntary Interpersonal Exchange (Catallactics, or the Economics of the Market)

    …1. Barter

    …2. With Medium of Exchange

    …….a. On the Unhampered Market

    …….b. Effects of Violent Intervention with the Market

    …….c. Effects of Violent Abolition of the Market (Socialism)

    C. The Theory of Propositional Exchange, or Law and Argumentation Ethics,

    D. The Theory of War – Hostile Action

    E. The Theory of Games (e.g., von Neumann and Morgenstern)

    HERE IS THE CORRECT ANSWER

    1) The human biological reaction to ‘cheating’ as a prevention against free riders.

    2) The organized use of violence to create private property from community property, and by homesteading. (Refutation of Crusoe Ethics)

    3) The organized use of violence to suppress involuntary transfers (cheating), and to force all consequential human action into the market for the production and distribution of goods and services. (Refutation of Non Aggression)

    4) The necessity of property, money and prices for calculation, incentives, and complex cooperation in a division of knowledge and labor.

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    5) The necessity of a monopoly of property definitions for the logical and non-arbitrary resolution of disputes, contracts, and common law.

    6) The necessity of organized production of commons and the contractual prohibition on their privatization, as a means of maintaining group competitiveness. (Refutation of total anarchism)

    7) The necessity of an insurer of last resort, for the promotion of risk taking.

    8) The prohibition on monopoly bureaucracy as a defense against interference in cooperation.

    9) The necessity of trade policy (collective bargaining) to neutralize competitive differences.

    (I’m sure I will extend this list to include prohibitions on inter-temporal transfers, obscurantism, pooling and laundering)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-30 07:08:00 UTC

  • I’m surprised I haven’t heard anything from you on this

    I’m surprised I haven’t heard anything from you on this:

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-29 20:14:00 UTC

  • I LOVE HUMAN BEINGS. REALLY. Pretty much all of them. On the other hand, I have

    I LOVE HUMAN BEINGS. REALLY.

    Pretty much all of them. On the other hand, I have a job to do. And that job is to disabuse people of a certain category of myths that stipulate that the high trust society and the economic rewards that come from it, can persist if we dismantle the ‘rules’ that are the product of over four millennia of accumulated uncomfortable, but necessary truths.

    And I must do this because our system of government, and our economy, and much of our five hundred year experiment, is very close to collapsing for the reasons that all civilizations collapse: (a) overextension (b) excessive credit (c) loss of founding moral narrative (d) failure of calculative systems that assist in cooperation and coordination while maintaining individual incentives.

    Dark ages are not uncommon in man’s history. There is no reason that we could not have another. Or even something less catastrophic, like revolution, or descent into malignant tyranny.

    But something is very surely going to happen in the next twenty years. And that is the end of the west as a people, as a civilization, predicated on the mythology of the enlightenment.

    Perhaps as some progressives fantasize, technology will save us. But hope is not a strategy and faith is not a tactic.

    SO it is left to those of us who will face uncomfortable truths, to construct the calculative sciences – the new means of cooperation and incentives – that allow us to preserve that aspect of the high trust society, at least in a caste or nation, such that innovation can persist, despite the collapse of the failure to create an Aristocracy of Everybody.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-27 14:46:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/24/atheism-richard-dawkins-challenge-beliefs-homelessBrilliant.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-25 19:02:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-godsey/for-the-first-time-ever-a_b_4221000.html

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-22 13:00:00 UTC

  • UNPLEASANT. BUT THAT’S IT

    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100251229/passive-smoking-another-of-the-nanny-states-big-lies/OBVIOUS. UNPLEASANT. BUT THAT’S IT.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-22 05:54:00 UTC

  • Mr. Doolittle, Would you be willing to offer a counter view?

    Mr. Doolittle, Would you be willing to offer a counter view?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-19 16:58:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://shar.es/OZ3H4

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-19 04:25:00 UTC

  • A song about a “red, vermillion, Ukrainian unicorn” (The title of the song is “R

    A song about a “red, vermillion, Ukrainian unicorn” (The title of the song is “Russian Unicorn” – probably it refers to its ethnicity)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-17 13:20:00 UTC

  • UNCONSTRAINED BY RELIGIOUS AND FEMINIST MORALISM” “In today’s punitive atmospher

    http://ideas.time.com/2013/12/16/its-a-mans-world-and-it-always-will-be/#ixzz2nev5pBy8″ROLLICK UNCONSTRAINED BY RELIGIOUS AND FEMINIST MORALISM”

    “In today’s punitive atmosphere of sentimental propaganda about gender, the sexual imagination has understandably fled into the alternate world of online pornography, where the rude but exhilarating forces of primitive nature rollick unconstrained by religious or feminist moralism.”

    Read more: It’s a Man’s World, And It Always Will Be | TIME.com http://ideas.time.com/2013/12/16/its-a-mans-world-and-it-always-will-be/#ixzz2nev5pBy8″

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-16 12:15:00 UTC