"Rev Dr" Lenny Flank
Posts: 2560
Joined: Feb. 2005
|
| Quote (Chris Hyland @ Aug. 31 2007,17:29) | | Thats why I hate listening to people argue about economics. They manage to have a heated discussion about why their system will lead to a better outcome without mentioning that they have completely different measures for the desirability of the outcome. |
What I've always found interesting is that economists virtually never examine or explain any NON-capitalist economic system, despite the fact that humans lived under non-capitalist economic systems for 99% of all human history. I only recall ever seeing one book by a modern economist (other than Marx) on the feudalist economic system (IIRC, it was by Heilbroner). I don't recall seeing ANY on Roman or Greek slave-holding economies.
Every other economist seems to simply assume as a matter of course that modern capitalism is simply a "given" that was apparently here for all eternity and will continue eternally into the indefinite future.
Alas, history has never been very kind to peopole who blithely assumed that their current social/economic/political system was the very best of all possible worlds . . . . . .
--------------
Editor, Red and Black Publishers
www.RedandBlackPublishers.com
|
