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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on The Long Arm of the Law Merchant by The Long Arm of the Law Merchant | Austro-Athenian Empire
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) The Long Arm of the Law Merchant
[cross-posted at POT and facebook] In my latest Agoric Café video, I chat with economist Bruce L. Benson about polycentric mercantile law in medieval Europe and among the Plains Indians; whether private law can work outside of small homogeneous communities; causation vs. correlation in the gun control debate; the perils of scissors-and-paste history; the abolition…
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(Policy of Truth) The Long Arm of the Law Merchant
In my latest Agoric Café video, I chat with economist Bruce L. Benson about polycentric mercantile law in medieval Europe and among the Plains Indians; whether private law can work outside of small homogeneous communities; causation vs. correlation in the gun control debate; the perils of scissors-and-paste history; the abolition of criminal law; the incentival…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on George Sher’s “Desert”: The Dimensions of the Problem by mlyoung57
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Seems right that listing out all the putative cases you can think of and addressing them all in some way is non-supererogatory. What would be supererogatory (and wrong-headed) is spending a lot of time figuring out just how e…
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(Policy of Truth) what is desert-basis and how does it work?
[CONTINUING A BIT OF THE MTSP ZOOM DISCUSSION OF CH. 1 OF SHER’S DESERT] I had developed a view of desert-basis (the fact or facts in virtue of which a deserver deserves something) and how it determines desert that went like this: (a) true desert basis, at least in a certain important sense, is the…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on George Sher’s “Desert”: The Dimensions of the Problem by Catxman
If we pursue utilitarian philosophy we find that there is less concern about people’s condition in general and more interest — sharply delineated — in creating a “beautiful society” — a Potemkin village which hides t…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on COVID Booster Shot Meets Health Care Monopoly by Irfan Khawaja
From Becker’s Hospital Review: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/7-ways-this-covid-19-surge-is-different.html?origin=BHRE&utm_source=BHRE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter&oly_enc_i…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on COVID Booster Shot Meets Health Care Monopoly by Irfan Khawaja
Here’s a piece in this morning’s New York Times that manages to combine every fallacy about the booster shot in one place, as though for purposes of epidemiological one-stop-shopping: Apoorva Mandavilli: “Most studies indicate that i…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on COVID Booster Shot Meets Health Care Monopoly by Irfan Khawaja
Here’s an item on the WHO moratorium: https://www.statnews.com/2021/08/04/who-calls-for-a-temporary-moratorium-on-administering-booster-shots-of-covid-19-vaccines/ LikeLike
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