Economic links

[erudito]

How finding a Norwegian film about Nazi zombies awesome connects to hostility to free markets. More.

Paper surveying the evidence on minimum wages:
…the studies that focus on the least-skilled groups provide relatively overwhelming evidence of stronger disemployment effects for these groups.

Nice discussion of the real world impact of Smoot-Hawley

Comments

[jordan179]

I think that the main problem with Malthusian thinking is more fundamental. The Malthusians imagine the majority of the population to be utterly stupid and helpless, driven by a compulsion to breed without cessation (in fact, the real lower classes of his own day had all sorts of fertility-reducing customs) and doomed to know and do only those things implied by their current jobs (in fact, the real lower classes of his own day were increasing their skills and other education, and flocking to work in the new factories). Real human beings are more flexible and intelligence than Malthus gave them credit for being.

The reason for this mistake is that the Malthusian imagines himself a superior sort of being than the typical other member of the general populace. Now, the Malthusian is probably smarter, but he forgets that there are more kinds of intelligence than written-verbal, and also that the variation in human intelligence is not really that great, save at the very extreme extremes

Malthus

[erudito]

On Malthus, someone may have made similar points.

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[anonymous]

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