Economics as Metaphysics
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» tuc - Rawls and Foucault
Is John Rawl's correct that extra capital is only justifiable to the extent that it provides additional advantage to the lower stratificationsof society?
Is this compatable with the idea of power and Marginilization in Foucault?
Could Economics be a barebones Metaphysics that also is reductionalistic yet practical? Especially if the Economics is along the lines of J. K. Gailbraith and E. F. Shumacker?
-- posted by tuc
» JS_Mill - don't think that "New Rawls" believes this anymore
In later writings, Rawls seems to be advocating a "Political Liberalism" -- kind of like the idea that there must be no group which is systematically disadvantaged by the rules of society. (but I'm working from memory here and may be well wrong). There's a good book on it called "Liberals and Communitarians" by Mulhall and Swift.Don't think you'll ever get a metaphysics out of economics -- conventional microeconomics is really an axiomatic theory, while macro is an empirical social science. Schumacher's stuff isn't really all that good -- just a lot of aprioristic social theorising, much of which is empirically false. I have a bit more time for Galbraith, but only a bit.
What do you mean by "economics as metaphysics"?
jsm
-- posted by JS_Mill
» tuc - Nature of Reality
i think of econ as a organised body of knowledge,much like a german sscience. A. Freeman has shown that the brain is a chaotic system. People from the Santefee Inst. are using chaos, to try and make money for their physics with chaos on the Money Market. It's been said that the stock market is also choatic, only not enough so to hit the big time.
If the limiting conditions were removed from Micro and all limiting conditions were taken into acount
with all vairables accounted for the this would resemble a bare-bones Nature of Reality. Then all
you would have to do is add a normative Value Realism like that of E. M. Adams and Value would then determine the nature of the Normativity of
what we should work towards. A organic unity as Nozick would have it. You might read also the mining co. article on the new measuers of the new economy.
-- posted by tuc
» tuc - re Anthony Freeman
Anthony Freeman worked for over thirty years in the field of Neuroscience. As far as i know hestill holds the record for the greatest number
of patch recording at one time. Thats measuring
voltage and a single ion gate. i think he did most
of his work with eeg's globally on rabits. In
summing up thirty years of work in 'Societies of
Brain's' he finds that the next state of the brain
is entirelly deppendant on the complete set of all
prior initiall conditions.(just as with strange attractors) and
-- posted by tuc
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