LRT: why I'm disinclined to do much more than cursory, summation-type discussion of economics here. @courtneymilan
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@asymbina my real objection is to rent-seeking and, provisionally, private ownership of land & natural resources as a vehicle to that -
@asymbina i suspect i might be a market socialist but i'm terrified to find out how people have used that term because i'm sure i'll hate it -
@asymbina in the end i don't know if i'm going to be able to keep up my so far pristine record of not reading Capital -
@chaosprime I've not read Das Kapital, or Keynes' General Theory, and I've only parts of The Wealth of Nations. -
@chaosprime While they're both tremendously important in the history of my field, they're not terribly relevant to modern theory, save for + -
@chaosprime the parts that are still part of fundamentals (and Keynes is most prominently represented there). -
@asymbina thank you for making me feel better about my extensive procrastination regarding giant lumps of Marx -
@asymbina tbh the idea of reading Marx and Engels makes me utterly weary b/c they were quite explicit about engaging in motivated reasoning - 3 more replies
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@asymbina then one person i was talking to and one person i was reading were clearly using "post-mercantilist philosophy of wealth creation"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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