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imagining history: October 2012
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Thursday, October 25, 2012. Ques Do you not find yourself mistaken now? Ans Was not Christ crucified. Christopher Tomlins on Walter Benjamin, Max Weber, and Nathaniel Turner's Confessions. Why did Memnon's reverberations haunt Thomas Roderick Dew? What was the sound that the broken, thrown-down statue of an Ethiopian warrior-king made when touched by the rising sun every day, day after day? Read more here: http:/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm? Tuesday, October 23, 2012. Is there truth in interpretation?
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imagining history: the interregional slave trade in the antebellum south: new research
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Monday, September 23, 2013. The interregional slave trade in the antebellum south: new research. In a section of Chapter 2 of Fogel and Engerman's Time on the Cross. Entitled "The Interregional Redistribution of Slaves", the following claim is advanced:. If the planters of the Old South engaged in deliberate breeding for export, it was a minor 'crop.' The total value of all the slaves sold from east to west in 1860 was about $3,000,000. (pg. 48). In the latest (September 2013) Journal of Economic History.
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Cognitive Footprint: July 2011
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Saturday, July 23, 2011. The Manufactured "Debt Crisis" and the American Ideology of Debt. Preliminary note: for the few people who read this blog, the economic analysis will be self-evident. But it still really has to be said. Again and again and again.]. Are we clear about this? So, under what circumstances would debt become "bad" for the US government (or any government)?
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Cognitive Footprint: July 2012
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Thursday, July 5, 2012. The ACA and Social Obligations. In an attempt to return to blogging - some thoughts here in the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling on health care (Though by now perhaps the subject is dated. But I’m trying still to work out my own views on the ACA. It’s possible that by the end of this post I will.). Would Ginsburg have voted to strike it down?
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Cognitive Footprint: November 2010
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Thursday, November 4, 2010. Engels on the Election. Thanks to Armagan Gezici. For posting this gem). The full letter by Engels can be found here). Links to this post. Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Rand Paul, Inchoate Marxist. Rand Paul, on Election Night, Nov 2, 2010. Karl Marx, from "Wage-Labor and Capital". The interests of the capitalist and those of the worker are, therefor...
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Cognitive Footprint: No Guns for Cops
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Saturday, March 21, 2015. No Guns for Cops. Just watched a video. Of a cop shooting dead a mentally ill black person who wouldn't put down a screwdriver. And I've read all the predictable defenses. "Hey, a screwdriver can be deadly"! How about this as an alternative? No guns for cops. Or at least they don't get to carry them on a regular basis. So the police are safer. When ...
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Cognitive Footprint: Revisiting Walras and Naturalism
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Sunday, February 9, 2014. Revisiting Walras and Naturalism. Universe - that we are beings with free will. And endowed with reason. As such, as we are not mere things. Walras sets out his person/thing distinction as follows:. The fact that man's will is cognitive and free makes it possible to divide every entity in the universe into two great classes: persons. We may divide t...
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Cognitive Footprint: March 2015
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Saturday, March 21, 2015. No Guns for Cops. Just watched a video. Of a cop shooting dead a mentally ill black person who wouldn't put down a screwdriver. And I've read all the predictable defenses. "Hey, a screwdriver can be deadly"! How about this as an alternative? No guns for cops. Or at least they don't get to carry them on a regular basis. So the police are safer. When ...
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Cognitive Footprint: Naturalism and Economics: What Is At Stake?
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Interdisciplinary disquisitions examining the areas of intersection between and among economics, philosophy, culture, and politics. Wednesday, August 29, 2012. Naturalism and Economics: What Is At Stake? In previous posts ( here. I examined whether Walras was committed to naturalism in economic thought. I concluded that he is hopelessly contradictory on the subject. But I never articulated what I think is at stake in the question generally. It might be useful to do so here. This kind of ontological commi...
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anti-mankiw: January 2012
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A critique of mankiw's economic worldview and a teacher's resource for alternative approaches to economics at the intro level. Saturday, January 14, 2012. An Obsession with Pigouvian Taxation? Mankiw is perhaps the most well-known supporter of Pigouvian taxation on retail gasoline. Pigouvian taxes have been proposed for all sorts of things, and some have been enacted in states while others remain largely a theoretical possibility only: tax car crashes. Cannot be solved by simply slapping a tax on the beh...
