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(page 202 of 624)
"Notes:
1) Keynes wrote “full employment is a special case, only realised when MPC and the inducement to invest stand in a particular relationship to one another”. So what’s this particular relationship?
2) Do modern empirical economists even believe in the multiplier theory anymore? Recall that commercial banks no longer “multiply up” central bank money after the Fed started paying interest on reserves." — Dec 19, 2025 07:42PM
"Notes:
1) Keynes wrote “full employment is a special case, only realised when MPC and the inducement to invest stand in a particular relationship to one another”. So what’s this particular relationship?
2) Do modern empirical economists even believe in the multiplier theory anymore? Recall that commercial banks no longer “multiply up” central bank money after the Fed started paying interest on reserves." — Dec 19, 2025 07:42PM
progress:
(page 186 of 366)
"The notes teach that Aristotle denies the Platonic view that pleasure is a movement (kinesis) or coming-to-be (genesis) – I had no idea that Plato thought that pleasure is a dynamic movement. In which dialogue does he expound this? Ig it makes sense – pleasure must surely be but an imprint of the Good, and being a movement, not a static Form, makes it imperfect.
And so idk why Aristotle denies the Platonic view." — 14 hours, 13 min ago
"The notes teach that Aristotle denies the Platonic view that pleasure is a movement (kinesis) or coming-to-be (genesis) – I had no idea that Plato thought that pleasure is a dynamic movement. In which dialogue does he expound this? Ig it makes sense – pleasure must surely be but an imprint of the Good, and being a movement, not a static Form, makes it imperfect.
And so idk why Aristotle denies the Platonic view." — 14 hours, 13 min ago
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― Love of Life
― Love of Life
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― A Letter to a Hindu
― A Letter to a Hindu
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― Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays
― Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays
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