Curt Doolittle

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  • THE NEW WORLD “DISORDER” – THE COST OF POWER VACUUM Flight MH17 and the new worl

    THE NEW WORLD “DISORDER” – THE COST OF POWER VACUUM

    Flight MH17 and the new world disorder – Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/10976498/Flight-MH17-and-the-new-world-disorder.html

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 20:34:00 UTC

  • VERSION OF THE BUFFET RULE : MANAGERS MUST BE OWNERS. I’ve been saying this fore

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/03/01/solving-the-principal-agent-problem-apple-insists-that-executives-must-hold-company-stock/APPLE’S VERSION OF THE BUFFET RULE : MANAGERS MUST BE OWNERS.

    I’ve been saying this forever. The data is pretty clearly in favor of it. And attempts to circumvent it fail.

    The value of outside owners is to make sure you’re not privatizing capital in the business. The value of inside owners is to make sure you have the incentives to produce capital not privatize it. Outside non-owners, inside non-owners are I suppose fine for volunteer organizations. But otherwise Taleb’s argument holds: Skin in the game is the only insurance.

    Free riding is everywhere.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 15:19:00 UTC

  • news but conventional wisdom changes through repetition

    http://billmoyers.com/2014/07/17/scientists-are-beginning-to-figure-out-why-conservatives-are%E2%80%A6-conservative/Old news but conventional wisdom changes through repetition.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 06:24:00 UTC

  • ARTICLE ON THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST GOLD STANDARD

    http://www.coordinationproblem.org/2014/07/yglesias-on-the-gold-standard.htmlGOOD ARTICLE ON THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST GOLD STANDARD

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 05:18:00 UTC

  • ARTICLE ON THE CURRENT ECONOMICS OF GAME DEVELOPMENT The world is a lot differen

    http://iveybusinessreview.ca/blogs/lbolukhba2010/2014/07/15/1ups-video-game-studios-keep-dying/GREAT ARTICLE ON THE CURRENT ECONOMICS OF GAME DEVELOPMENT

    The world is a lot different from when I wrote adventure games after work in the 80’s by myself. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-18 05:02:00 UTC

  • (worth repeating) —“We have limited cognitive and perceptive abilities, and re

    (worth repeating)

    —“We have limited cognitive and perceptive abilities, and require this multitude of tools to testify that we in fact are conveying OBSERVATIONS rather than IMAGINATIONS. “—

    The purpose of that method we call ‘the scientific method’ is ethical: to ensure that we are testifying to observation rather than imagination.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-17 20:11:00 UTC

  • Bindner says: July 16, 2014 at 2:03 pm The further takeaway is that electing a R

    http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2014/07/16/six-takeaways-cbos-new-long-term-budget-outlook/#comment-241060—“Michael Bindner says:

    July 16, 2014 at 2:03 pm

    The further takeaway is that electing a Republican President and Senate is the only thing that can create near term fiscal disaster. Health and the retirement of the boomers is still a concern – but both of those are, in my opinion, due to inadequate replacement levels – a birth dirth.

    The debt percentage is going up, for now, but won’t hit the record anytime soon. That is not a problem as long as Europe and China stay out of the business of selling their debt as a package or buying ours. The continued uncertainty is likely as much about policy. A strong bipartisan budget agreement will likely change that – but is unlikely to occur just yet. This also kills the prospect of long term reform being easy (but that is a fantasy anyway). The baseline itself is also fantasy – as always. Of course, the alternative scenario is just as unlikely. There may not even be a United States in 2039 – we may unite with Europe, and maybe Latin America and Africa by then (indeed, not uniting by then is probably a bad thing).”—-

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    Curt Doolittle says:

    July 16, 2014 at 2:38 pm

    Conservatives value norms, nuclear family, and liberty because they have a Durkheimian view of man: that our culture’s economic advantage is the product of high trust created only under self sufficiency, and such self trust must be constructed normatively first and institutionally second, only as a consequence of those norms. And all evidence around the world un all cultures at all points in time confirms this belief. We cannot run private corporations or corporeal states independent of family structure and norms. This is the fendamental fallacy if universalism whether capitalist or socialist.

    The conservatives speak in myth and allegory, but the empirical content if those myths is correct, while the empirical content of macro economic theory converted from Marx byKkeynes in economics and the universalism of the classicals in mathematics both fail correspondence with drminstrated human behavior. We are tribal beings and only pseudoscientific westerners divorce morality ; the necessary rules required of any cooperative species – from the science that purports to mrasure such things. American divisiveness and europesn divisiveness, and add the divisiveness in the world is caused first znd foremost by attempts of states to violate those necessary laws of cooperation: the prevention of free riding is the cause if moral intuitions.

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    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-16 15:00:00 UTC

  • Progressive pseudoscience to the contrary

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10210327/McDouble-is-cheapest-and-most-nutritious-food-in-human-history.html?utm_content=buffer30eda&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=bufferYep. Progressive pseudoscience to the contrary

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-15 05:26:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDO

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/THE ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDOSCIENCE

    I started ‘coming out’ against Austro (Misesian) Libertarian (Rothbardian) Pseudoscience, Immorality and Impossibility in December of ’13 or so. And I’ve built up a set of pieces since then that outline the arguments. It wasn’t really until June that I put the last pieces together and understood just why mises failed and rothbard was able to get away with is nonsense.

    This set of sketches outline the main arguments that constitute the Aristocratic Egalitarian criticism of the fallacies of the Austro Libertarians. While I’ll continue working on the book until it’s as close to perfect as I can get it, these posts will provide the red pill that lets you see Austro Libertarianism as the utter nonsense that it is. If you need more than this, then you’ll have to wait for me to finish. But I kind of think the educated person won’t need to.

    (Items marked “***” are best choices.)

    1) Why Mises Failed in Economics and Social Science

    2) Criticisms of Misesian Pseudoscience

    3) Criticisms of Rothbardian Libertinism

    — Law

    — Ethics

    — Fallacies

    4) Moral Blindness of Sentimental Libertarians

    — WHY MISES FAILED —

    ***The Failure Of Mises In Context

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/

    ***The Irony of Austrian A Priorism***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/07/08/the-irony-of-austrian-apriorism/

    ***To Boettke On Hayek’s and Mises’ Failures

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/30/to-peter-boettke-on-hayek-and-mises-failures/

    — CRITICISMS OF PSEUDOSCIENCE —

    Definition of Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/definition-of-pseudoscience/

    Axiomatic and Consistent vs Theoretic and Correspondent

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/more-on-the-axiomatic-consistent-vs-theoretic-correspondent/

    Logic vs Science

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/logic-vs-science/

    Why Misesian praxeology, as stated, is a pseudoscience.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-is-praxeology-a-pseudoscience-and-therefore-false/

    The End of Praxeology as a Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-praxeology-as-a-pseudoscience/

    Why Undermine Praxeology?

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-do-you-want-to-undermine-praxeology/

    Praxeology as Crankism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/crankish-rationalist-pseudoscience-like-praxeology-is-crankish-science-and-logic-are-parsimonious/

    Fallacy of Criticizing Empiricism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/if-mises-is-a-kantian-should-we-convict-him-of-conspiracy-too/

    The Limits of Misesian Criticism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/25/on-the-limits-of-the-misesian-criticism/

    *Reforming Praxeology

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/on-the-reformation-of-praxeology/

    — CRITICISMS OF ROTHBARDIAN LIBERTINE LIBERTARIANISM —

    THE ROTHBARDIAN FAILURE AND ITS DAMAGE TO LIBERTY

    ***Reforming Libertarianism is Pretty Simple Really***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/reforming-libertarianism-is-pretty-simple-really/

    ***Moral Realism – The Prohibition on Free Riding***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/moral-realism-the-prohibition-on-free-riding/

    ***Demand For Authority : Suppressing Retribution For Anti-Social, Unethical, and Immoral Actions***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/26/demand-for-authority-suppressing-retribution-for-anti-social-unethical-and-immoral-actions/

    ***Ending The Debilitating Libertarian Dependence Upon The NAP***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/16/ending-the-debilitating-libertarian-dependence-upon-rothbards-nap/

    ***Rendering Rothbard’s Cosmopolitan Fallacies Impossible

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/

    ***Response to Woods and Cantwell on Aggression***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/contra-response-to-tom-woods-and-chris-cantwell-on-aggression/

    ***The Possibility of Thick, Aristocratic, and Thin Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/29/the-possibility-of-thick-aristocratic-and-thin-libertarianism/

    ETHICAL COMPARISONS AND CRITICISMS

    Ghetto Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/definition-ghetto-ethics/

    The Fiction of Ghetto Property Rights

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-fiction-of-the-morality-of-ghetto-property-rights/

    Criticism of the NAP

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-central-object-of-the-anarchic-research-program/

    The NAP Fails on Transaction Costs Alone

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/another-nail-in-the-rothbardian-coffin-nap-fails-on-transaction-costs-alone/

    The NAP Is Insufficient For The Suppression Of The State

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-n-a-p-is-insufficient-for-suppression-of-demand-for-the-state-in-fact-the-nap-is-unethical-by-definition/

    Reforming Libertarian Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/reforming-libertarian-ethics/

    The Four Libertarian Frameworks

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-four-libertarian-frameworks/

    Tables and Diagram

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/comparison-of-the-libertarian/

    Rothbardian ethics are parasitic

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/rothbardian-ethics-are-parasitic/

    Rothbardian Ethics As A Parasitic Scam

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/rothbardian-ghetto-ethics-as-a-parasitic-scam/

    LAW

    Humans will fill an ethical vacuum left by Rothbardian libertine ethics.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/humans-will-invent-institutions-to-fill-ethical-and-moral-vacuums/

    FALLACIES

    List of Rothbardian Fallacies

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-ghetto-libertarianism/

    The deception of “psychic benefit”

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/the-moral-deception-of-the-ethical-standard-of-psychic-benefit/

    Immigration as Redistribution

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/caplans-dishonest-redistributive-argument-in-favor-of-open-immigration/

    The Immorality of Pacifist Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-immorality-of-pacifist-libertarianism/

    Fallacy of Desirable Choice

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/6832/

    Liberty Expressed as a Right Is An Attempt to obtain it at a discount

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-reason-you-use-the-word-liberty-and-not-aristocracy/

    More on Rothbardian attempts to obtain liberty for free

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/aristocratic-egalitarian-vs-rothbardian-ethics/

    MORAL BLINDNESS

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/why-are-libertarians-less-sensitive-to-the-transaction-costs-of-immoral-and-unethical-actions/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/we-are-morally-blind-limited-in-our-perceptions-and-memory-and-severely-in-our-reason-the-last-thing-we-should-do-is-construct-large-risk-prone-intentionally-managed-states/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/libertarian-moral-spectrum-blindness/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/i-didnt-realize-the-power-of-my-argument-against-libertarian-perception-of-reality/

    Rothbardians bear the burden of demonstrating that they are not morally blind.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/its-up-to-rothbardians-to-demonstrate-that-they-are-not/

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:41:00 UTC

  • ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDO

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/definition-of-pseudoscience/THE ARISTOCRATIC RED PILL : AUSTRO LIBERTARIANISM AS YET ANOTHER COSMOPOLITAN PSEUDOSCIENCE

    I started ‘coming out’ against Austro (Misesian) Libertarian (Rothbardian) Pseudoscience, Immorality and Impossibility in December of ’13 or so. And I’ve built up a set of pieces since then that outline the arguments. It wasn’t really until June that I put the last pieces together and understood just why mises failed and rothbard was able to get away with is nonsense.

    This set of sketches outline the main arguments that constitute the Aristocratic Egalitarian criticism of the fallacies of the Austro Libertarians. While I’ll continue working on the book until it’s as close to perfect as I can get it, these posts will provide the red pill that lets you see Austro Libertarianism as the utter nonsense that it is. If you need more than this, then you’ll have to wait for me to finish. But I kind of think the educated person won’t need to.

    (Items marked “***” are best choices.)

    1) Why Mises Failed in Economics and Social Science

    2) Criticisms of Misesian Pseudoscience

    3) Criticisms of Rothbardian Libertinism

    — Law

    — Ethics

    — Fallacies

    4) Moral Blindness of Sentimental Libertarians

    — WHY MISES FAILED —

    ***The Failure Of Mises In Context

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/21/mises-praxeology-as-the-failure-to-develop-economic-operationalism-yes/

    ***The Irony of Austrian A Priorism***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/07/08/the-irony-of-austrian-apriorism/

    ***To Boettke On Hayek’s and Mises’ Failures

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/30/to-peter-boettke-on-hayek-and-mises-failures/

    — CRITICISMS OF PSEUDOSCIENCE —

    Definition of Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/definition-of-pseudoscience/

    Axiomatic and Consistent vs Theoretic and Correspondent

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/more-on-the-axiomatic-consistent-vs-theoretic-correspondent/

    Logic vs Science

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/logic-vs-science/

    Why Misesian praxeology, as stated, is a pseudoscience.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-is-praxeology-a-pseudoscience-and-therefore-false/

    The End of Praxeology as a Pseudoscience

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-praxeology-as-a-pseudoscience/

    Why Undermine Praxeology?

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/q-curt-why-do-you-want-to-undermine-praxeology/

    Praxeology as Crankism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/crankish-rationalist-pseudoscience-like-praxeology-is-crankish-science-and-logic-are-parsimonious/

    Fallacy of Criticizing Empiricism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/if-mises-is-a-kantian-should-we-convict-him-of-conspiracy-too/

    The Limits of Misesian Criticism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/25/on-the-limits-of-the-misesian-criticism/

    *Reforming Praxeology

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/on-the-reformation-of-praxeology/

    — CRITICISMS OF ROTHBARDIAN LIBERTINE LIBERTARIANISM —

    THE ROTHBARDIAN FAILURE AND ITS DAMAGE TO LIBERTY

    ***Reforming Libertarianism is Pretty Simple Really***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/reforming-libertarianism-is-pretty-simple-really/

    ***Moral Realism – The Prohibition on Free Riding***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/moral-realism-the-prohibition-on-free-riding/

    ***Demand For Authority : Suppressing Retribution For Anti-Social, Unethical, and Immoral Actions***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/26/demand-for-authority-suppressing-retribution-for-anti-social-unethical-and-immoral-actions/

    ***Ending The Debilitating Libertarian Dependence Upon The NAP***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/16/ending-the-debilitating-libertarian-dependence-upon-rothbards-nap/

    ***Rendering Rothbard’s Cosmopolitan Fallacies Impossible

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/20/rendering-rothbardian-fallacies-intellectually-embarrassing-and-argumentatively-impossible/

    ***Response to Woods and Cantwell on Aggression***

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/06/14/contra-response-to-tom-woods-and-chris-cantwell-on-aggression/

    ***The Possibility of Thick, Aristocratic, and Thin Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/05/29/the-possibility-of-thick-aristocratic-and-thin-libertarianism/

    ETHICAL COMPARISONS AND CRITICISMS

    Ghetto Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/definition-ghetto-ethics/

    The Fiction of Ghetto Property Rights

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-fiction-of-the-morality-of-ghetto-property-rights/

    Criticism of the NAP

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-central-object-of-the-anarchic-research-program/

    The NAP Fails on Transaction Costs Alone

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/another-nail-in-the-rothbardian-coffin-nap-fails-on-transaction-costs-alone/

    The NAP Is Insufficient For The Suppression Of The State

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/the-n-a-p-is-insufficient-for-suppression-of-demand-for-the-state-in-fact-the-nap-is-unethical-by-definition/

    Reforming Libertarian Ethics

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/reforming-libertarian-ethics/

    The Four Libertarian Frameworks

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-four-libertarian-frameworks/

    Tables and Diagram

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/comparison-of-the-libertarian/

    Rothbardian ethics are parasitic

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/rothbardian-ethics-are-parasitic/

    Rothbardian Ethics As A Parasitic Scam

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/rothbardian-ghetto-ethics-as-a-parasitic-scam/

    LAW

    Humans will fill an ethical vacuum left by Rothbardian libertine ethics.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/humans-will-invent-institutions-to-fill-ethical-and-moral-vacuums/

    FALLACIES

    List of Rothbardian Fallacies

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-end-of-ghetto-libertarianism/

    The deception of “psychic benefit”

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/the-moral-deception-of-the-ethical-standard-of-psychic-benefit/

    Immigration as Redistribution

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/caplans-dishonest-redistributive-argument-in-favor-of-open-immigration/

    The Immorality of Pacifist Libertarianism

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/the-immorality-of-pacifist-libertarianism/

    Fallacy of Desirable Choice

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/02/15/6832/

    Liberty Expressed as a Right Is An Attempt to obtain it at a discount

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/the-reason-you-use-the-word-liberty-and-not-aristocracy/

    More on Rothbardian attempts to obtain liberty for free

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/11/26/aristocratic-egalitarian-vs-rothbardian-ethics/

    MORAL BLINDNESS

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/03/why-are-libertarians-less-sensitive-to-the-transaction-costs-of-immoral-and-unethical-actions/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/we-are-morally-blind-limited-in-our-perceptions-and-memory-and-severely-in-our-reason-the-last-thing-we-should-do-is-construct-large-risk-prone-intentionally-managed-states/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/libertarian-moral-spectrum-blindness/

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/i-didnt-realize-the-power-of-my-argument-against-libertarian-perception-of-reality/

    Rothbardians bear the burden of demonstrating that they are not morally blind.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/04/27/its-up-to-rothbardians-to-demonstrate-that-they-are-not/

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-14 12:41:00 UTC