November 26, 2011

a modest education in economics

via Crooked Timber, Cosma's engaging fable Dives, Lazarus, and Alice. A couple of bits to whet the ummmm appetite:

...Gloomy, snarky, heavy-handed, academic, and obvious to anyone who knows enough about the subject to care...

...The larger point is that while what is technologically efficient depends on facts of nature, what is economically efficient is a function of our social arrangements, of who owns how much of what. Economic efficiency may be a good tool, but it is perverse to serve your own tools, and monstrous to be ruled by them. Let us be thankful for the extent to which we escape perversion and monstrosity.

Posted by oook at November 26, 2011 09:21 AM
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