On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know if he's a troll or not. Most of what he says reflects the > orthodoxy among economists. He's sort of a Keynesian. > > The official view of the "value of human life" is that it's nothing but > the price of human life, set by supply and demand. Some or even many > economists are embarrassed by this vision (since it goes against the basic > equality that's at the center of liberal theory), but it's used by > government and the legal system (so it's not part of liberal practice). > As much as I despise mainstream economists, I think it is a bit unfair to attribute such an extreme sentiment to any significant portion of them. There are plenty of good arguments to make against mainstream economists without resorting to reductio-ad-absurdum fallacies. -raghu.
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