From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 11:16:45 MST
Max M wrote:
> Reason wrote:
>
>> http://www.mises.org
>>
>> Read the daily article for a few weeks; it should improve your
>> understanding of non-State-centric economics no end.
>
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> My understanding of economics is not the problem here. And here you go
> again doing exactly what I said was the problem. Economics is a
> "science", but not a very exact one. It shares the same problems as
> psychology with human nature.
>
> The free market is ideologically inspired in large part by natural
> selection. But that does not mean that natural selection is a natural
> law.
The free market is inspired by belief in the importance of *freedom*.
If we are to be less free in economic matters then it must be for very
well-presented and validated reasons.
>
> We as humans don't have to follow a system like that. Gene therapy ie.
> is pretty Lamarchian to me! Nor does it mean that a free market as
> policy is a natural law.
We as humans don't have to be free. We can be slaves of the state for
instance. We will not thrive and throughout history have not thrived in
such a state but it is possible. A "natural law" ? What about the
nature of human beings and what is required by that nature for them to
most thrive?
- samantha
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