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Rationality and Economics

April 23, 2018 Homo Stupidus

In The Theory of Imitation, when discussing the philosophical origin of science, I observed that these disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, medicine, and

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How Much Wealth Does One Person Need? Money Does Not Make the World Go Round

March 1, 2018 Homo Stupidus

One of the characteristics that makes human beings very different from all other living organisms is that our desires are not limited, as they are

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Speculation Fever: The Alchemy of Making Money from Money

January 11, 2018 Homo Stupidus

In a word, the great speculating fever which breaks out every now and then in the country, had raged to an alarming degree, and everybody

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Greed is Bad

September 25, 2016 Homo Stupidus

In the movie Wall Street, the director sought to present to viewers a modern-day parable illustrating the harmful effects of greed. By portraying the protagonist,

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  • Act I: Philosophical Misadventures
  • Act II: Free-Market Folly: Why Economics is not a Science
  • Act III: The Glorious Miracle of Life
  • Act IV: Our Relationship with God
  • Act V: The Only Way Forward is the Way Back
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