Category: Economics, Finance, and Political Economy

  • WHY DON”T WE TEACH MARXIST ECONOMICS EXCEPT IN SOCIOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERAT

    WHY DON”T WE TEACH MARXIST ECONOMICS EXCEPT IN SOCIOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE?

    —“No one teaches Marxism in economics….” vitiates any merits there may be to your rather prosaic submission 🤔”— Jason Tutu

    Find me some university economics department that teaches marxist economics. They may teach a touch of marx in the history of economic thought. They don’t teach it at all. IN fact I don’t know any economics department that teaches anything other than mainstream (keynesian, saltwater) thought, albeit with some nod to chicago and at least in the best, some nod to austrian (mengerian). That’s because the labor theory of value is clearly false, economic calculation and coordination is impossible, and incentives are impossible, and every attempt at marxism whether fast failure (communism), medium failure (authoritarian socialism), or slow failure (democratic socialism) has failed, for not just one of the three reasons, but for ALL three reasons. And it cannot be otherwise. Why? Because in the end it violates the laws of physics, violates human moral intuition, which is bound by the laws of physics and therefore reflects them, and because there are limits to the debt-credit of human intuition and memory that make it possible for us to shift time between us so that we can obtain the outsized returns on cooperation, within those laws of physics.

    There are few people on this planet whounderstandd these subjects as well as I do and if you manage to capture the attention of one of us and actually respond to you, its wise counsel to read and understand what is being said to you.

    I do this for a living online because the public functions not just as my classroom but because of my method by teaching using king of the hill games, the public also serves as my test subjects.

    Affections.

    Curt


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-26 11:30:00 UTC

  • The economics of consumption has replaced morality in politics, but it is possib

    The economics of consumption has replaced morality in politics, but it is possible to restore consumption-with-tests-of-changes-in-the-state-of-capital possible under commodity money,… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=492710044659224&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-25 20:29:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187828547563524097

  • THE PROBLEM OF LEFT EGALITARIAN THOUGTH —“That is the problem with the egalita

    THE PROBLEM OF LEFT EGALITARIAN THOUGTH

    —“That is the problem with the egalitarian program in a state of post-industrial revolution production. A uniform level of income distribution is… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=492657594664469&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-25 18:32:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187799035266162688

  • The economics of consumption has replaced morality in politics, but it is possib

    The economics of consumption has replaced morality in politics, but it is possible to restore consumption-with-tests-of-changes-in-the-state-of-capital possible under commodity money, localized capital, regional markets, and social homogeneity and abandon simple volume of consumption under conditions of paper money, social heterogeneity, world capital, and worldwide markets, thereby ending hyperconsumption, including of genetic, social, institutional, cultural and civilizational capital.

    In other words we lost the ability to test the changes in civilizational capital, by failing to measure them as trade moved from regional to national to civilizational to world scope – and in doing so our failure to include measurements of, and tools for measuring, human, cultural, institutional, genetic, etc capital was exposed and exploited, just as was our local tolerance for information stated with european law norm, christian values, and aristotelian reason.

    I keep saying this but the problem of the 20th was a failure of our institutions to produce systems of measurement and incentives to defend capital in parallel with the commercial and monetary expansion.

    The beauty of the western common law under which the first court finding that resolves a dispute over an innovation in means of irreciprocity, is that it responds the fastest to inventions of irreciprocity forcing us to continually innovate in means of competition under reciprocity.

    The problem is that our law failed to modernize particularly in two areas (1) measurement of the very capital that provides our civilizational means of competition (human , informal institutional and formal institutional capital), and (2) expanding our law to cover innovations in deception for the purpose of irreciprocity and obscuring that very capital consumption, made possible by the industrialization of false speech, and the reformation of abrahamic supernaturalism, sophism and denial, into abrahamic pseudoscience sophism and denial: marxism, boazianism, freudianism, feminism, postmodernism, and political correctness: denialism.

    We aren’t unique. It destroyed every empire i know of. Because what is accumulated rent seeking other than a failure to measure all capital transformation, and to create new incentives under the law to suppress newly available forms of parasitism that consume rather than produce human capital.

    All civilizations collapse because they have exhausted the capital available to use in the reorganization of a pareto distribution of influences, and a nash equilibrium of rewards for preserving that new system of organization, in response to scarcities, shocks, changes in trade routes, conflcit, war (Physical, Ideological, religious, economic), and variations in the environment (drought, climate, water and river changes, continuous quakes, world volcanic activity – which aside from very large asteroids is the most dangerous of all.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-25 16:29:00 UTC

  • It’s not a matter of should, it’s a matter of can, and whether you’re committing

    It’s not a matter of should, it’s a matter of can, and whether you’re committing fraud or not, by representing a share tradable as a ticket/token, as a money substitute independent of a transactor- BTC network being a neutral but dependent third party. Money cannot do so.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-24 17:20:21 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187418564220870657

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  • THE PRINCIPLE PROBLEM SOLVED BY P There is nothing in psychology, sociology, eth

    THE PRINCIPLE PROBLEM SOLVED BY P

    There is nothing in psychology, sociology, ethics, politics, or group strategy that is not readily expressible in economic terms – emotions and intuitions… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=491841631412732&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-24 14:47:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187380057607684097

  • Any theory in metaphysics, psychology, sociology, ethics, politics, or group str

    Any theory in metaphysics, psychology, sociology, ethics, politics, or group strategy must be constructable from rational incentives to acquire some sort of discount or premium, or the theory is false. It’s no different from any other of the logics: all logic is falsificationary.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-24 14:43:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187379171565150208

    Reply addressees: @DegenRolf

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    @DegenRolf There is nothing in psychology, sociology, ethics, politics, or group strategy that is not readily expressible in economic terms – emotions and intuitions are nothing more than evolution providing us with information on how to acquire some sort of resource discounting our costs.

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    @curtdoolittle

    @DegenRolf There is nothing in psychology, sociology, ethics, politics, or group strategy that is not readily expressible in economic terms – emotions and intuitions are nothing more than evolution providing us with information on how to acquire some sort of resource discounting our costs.

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  • There is nothing in psychology, sociology, ethics, politics, or group strategy t

    There is nothing in psychology, sociology, ethics, politics, or group strategy that is not readily expressible in economic terms – emotions and intuitions are nothing more than evolution providing us with information on how to acquire some sort of resource discounting our costs.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-24 14:42:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187378861903884288

    Reply addressees: @DegenRolf

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    @DegenRolf So, women seek an equilibrium under which they increase access to in-group social opportunity, have the resources to do so, but are able to control the source of resources, through control of attention. Men with money monopolize attention, and increase women’s competition.

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    @curtdoolittle

    @DegenRolf So, women seek an equilibrium under which they increase access to in-group social opportunity, have the resources to do so, but are able to control the source of resources, through control of attention. Men with money monopolize attention, and increase women’s competition.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1187378497934761987

  • WE ARE GOING TO NATIONALIZE THE FED WITHIN TWO YEARS. No. Really. We are. … Pr

    WE ARE GOING TO NATIONALIZE THE FED WITHIN TWO YEARS. No. Really. We are. … Promise.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-24 14:36:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187377204205887488

    Reply addressees: @realDonaldTrump

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    @realDonaldTrump

    The Federal Reserve is derelict in its duties if it doesn’t lower the Rate and even, ideally, stimulate. Take a look around the World at our competitors. Germany and others are actually GETTING PAID to borrow money. Fed was way too fast to raise, and way too slow to cut!

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187373187820130306

  • IT’S NOT MONEY. IT’S A DIVISIBlE TOKEN. AND THAT’S FINE BTC is not ‘money’ or mo

    IT’S NOT MONEY. IT’S A DIVISIBlE TOKEN. AND THAT’S FINE

    BTC is not ‘money’ or money substitute. It consists of, AND ONLY OF, a fractionally divisible share in the BTC Single-Stock Exchange… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=491450278118534&id=100017606988153


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-24 01:51:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187184721891082243