Justin Schwartz writes:
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>Didn't the Brazilian environment minister write that it was insane? It
>was, but it makes perfectly good sense within conventional economics. S
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"Do I obey economic laws if I extract money by offering my body for sale, by
surrendering it to another's lust? . . . . Am I not acting in keeping with
political economy if I sell my friend to the Moroccans? . . . . The
political economist replies to me, You do not transgress _my_ laws, but see
what Cousin Ethics and Cousin Religion have to say about it. My _political
economic_ ethics and religion have nothing to reproach you with . . . . ."
Some German thinker, writing in Paris in 1844.
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What exactly is the point? If conventional economics predict an
uncomfortable result for a proposed act (e.g., if I offer to prostitute my
self for a low enough price, somebody will pay me), conventional economics
is wrong empirically? Is morally bad?
David Shemano
