http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/29/weekinreview/29zhao.html
China's Wealthy Live by a Creed: Hobbes and Darwin, Meet Marx
By YILU ZHAO
BEIJING The rich in China these days are moving into the villages of Napa
Valley, Palm Springs, Long Beach, Upper East Side and Park Avenue, all in the
suburbs
In a message dated 6/24/2001 4:34:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Nemonemini
writes:
Subject: Darwin was innocent--but wrong about history. Debriefing Historical
Darwinism
Comment on article below in Biomednet, "Darwin was innocent"
LINK: http://news.bmn.com/news/story?day=010
Ricardo,
Thank you for admitting you don't have a source. Your
speculation that the dinos were in decline before the
asteroid hit is just that, speculation.
It is possible to accept punctuated equilibrium that
is not exogenously driven, although it may be in major
cases (like
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I am not going to argue with Shane Mage about the details and meanings of
Plato's work. He is clearly a much greater expert than I. It is quite
possible that I have been misled by the second professor (Thomas Pangle)
who assigned the REPUBLIC to me when I was an undergrad. He was a follower
of
would otherwise have them, nature as a selective breeder, in Darwin, may
remind us of the demon in Maxwell. However, the resemblance must not be
allowed to mislead us as to contrasting rationales motivating the two
theorists' essentially diferent proposals. Maxwell was concerned to
dramatize how ut
James Devine wrote:
It ends up being akin to Plato's golden myth (used to justify class
inequality in
the REPUBLIC).
In fairness to Plato, the first conscious communist, it should be pointed
out that the "class inequality" justified by the *gennaios pseudos*
consisted of persuading the *rulers*
Jim Devine wrote:
Plato was a communist, but his communism
was very much a conservative top-down operation. It is quite different from
the bottoms-up democratic rule by the proletariat that Marx favored. (Cf.
COMMENT: Only the top two classes in Plato's Republic live in a
mode
Jim Devine wrote:
I wrote:
It ends up being akin to Plato's golden myth (used to justify class
inequality in
the REPUBLIC).
Shane Mage responds:
In fairness to Plato, the first conscious communist, it should be pointed
out that the "class inequality" justified by the *gennaios pseudos*
At 12:21 PM 3/4/98 -0500, Rakesh wrote:
... my question for economists: The other great 19th century "agent" whose
work was done behind the scenes, a most interesting trope it seems, was
Auguste Walras' auctioneer, correct? Now this auctioneer was imagined as
having set market prices and
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At 12:21 PM 3/4/98 -0500, Rakesh wrote:
... my question for economists: The other
Rakesh,
I have a paper on this in the March 1992 issue of JEBO.
Barkley Rosser
On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 01:44:10 -0500 (EST) Rakesh Bhandari
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Hi, does anyone have any favorite readings about Darwin in relation to
political economy from which he derived analogies
Hi, does anyone have any favorite readings about Darwin in relation to
political economy from which he derived analogies, homologies, and/or
metaphors for the development of his theory of descent with modification
through the mechanism of natural selection? There is of course a chapter
review
NOMINEE #1 [San Jose Mercury News]
An unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former
girlfriend's windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the gun
discharged, blowing a hole in his gut.
NOMINEE #2 [Kalamazoo
Treacy: As a guy who used to drink a lot of beer and roar off on my BMW
bike, I would say a lot of this behavior is just youthful
machismo. After laying down the bike and smelling my self burn a
couple of times it occurred to me that I might be courting death.
Jim Craven writes:You all know about the Darwin Awards - It's an annual
honor given to the person who did the gene pool the biggest service by
killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way.
this kind of thing always evokes a chuckle (as with NEWS OF THE WIERD's
recent story about
that is pretty good
You all know about the Darwin Awards - It's an annual honor given to the
person who did the gene pool the biggest service by killing
themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way.
The 1995 winner was the fellow who was killed by a Coke machine which
toppled over on top of him
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