{"id":1711,"date":"2011-11-26T09:21:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T09:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2014-03-06T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:25:59","slug":"a-modest-education-in-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1711","title":{"rendered":"a modest education in economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via Crooked Timber, <a href=\"http:\/\/cscs.umich.edu\/~crshalizi\/weblog\/841.html\">Cosma&#8217;s engaging fable Dives, Lazarus, and Alice<\/a>. A couple of bits to whet the ummmm appetite:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Gloomy, snarky, heavy-handed, academic, and obvious to anyone who knows enough about the subject to care&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The larger point is that while what is <i>technologically<\/i> efficient depends on facts of nature, what is <i>economically<\/i> efficient is a function of our social arrangements, of who owns how much of what. Economic efficiency may be a good tool, but <b>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<\/b> perversion and monstrosity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Crooked Timber, Cosma&#8217;s engaging fable Dives, Lazarus, and Alice. A couple of bits to whet the ummmm appetite: &#8230;Gloomy, snarky, heavy-handed, academic, and obvious to anyone who knows enough about the subject to care&#8230; &#8230;The larger point is that while what is technologically efficient depends on facts of nature, what is economically efficient is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}