It's official: I'm an evil capitalist pig, oppressing a poor wage slave in a third world country, and dispossessing him from the productive surplus of his work for my own selfish profit!

Sure, I didn't make (and adamantly oppose ( Read more... )

In Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags, Clay Shirky clearly explains the issue of a posteriori knowledge versus a priori knowledge ( Read more... )

One of the first thing that any so-called "macro-economist ( Read more... )

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To declare something sacred is to hold it above comparison. It is to refuse to make a rational choice on that topic. It is to call for the automatic and irrational acceptance of certain behaviors by banishing the alternatives under the imposing yoke of moral authority. It is, in short, intimidation.

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Pour justifier l'intervention de l'État, les adeptes de la magie noire s'inventent des scénarios-catastrophes du genre que se passe-t-il si les fournisseurs de tel type de service font tous faux bond et ne satisfont pas le public? Ces ratiocinations suivent un modèle standard, et on peut leur donner une réponse standard.
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