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Economics [...] maximizing models are really arguing is that “people will always seek to maximize something,” [...] All they really add to analysis is a set of assumptions about human nature. The assumption, most of all, that no one ever does anything primarily out of concern for others; that whatever one does, one is only trying to get something out of it for oneself. In common English, there is a word for this attitude. It’s called “cynicism.” Most of us try to avoid people who take it too muc
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― Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams
― Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams
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John Law’s 'Money and Trade Considered' is the most influential but least acknowledged work in the history of economics.
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― John Law: The Lauriston Lecture and Collected Writings
― John Law: The Lauriston Lecture and Collected Writings
This reading group starts on December 30, 2016. It is an attempt to wrestle with a selection of…more
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