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Searching for common ground: In which I provide a partial defense of Ron Bailey`s "invisible hand of population control" thesis

TT`s Lost in Tokyo — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:06:29 GMT

Too Many or Too Few People? Does the market provide an answer?

TT`s Lost in Tokyo — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:55:51 GMT

To Ron Bailey: yes, an "invisible hand" controls population, but property rights & rule of law are not universal and, as Mises noted, require effort

TT`s Lost in Tokyo — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:28:27 GMT

Ron Bailey , science correspondent at ReasonOnline, has a very useful post up that outlines how markets

On Bob Murphy`s narrow attack on Krugman`s support for the Waxman-Markey climate bill

TT`s Lost in Tokyo — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:33:40 GMT

I just stumbled into Bob Murphy `s June 8 post at the LvMI Daily site, and submitted a few comments.

On Bob Murphy`s narrow attack on Krugman`s support for the Waxman-Markey climate bill

TT`s Lost in Tokyo — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:33:34 GMT

I just stumbled into Bob Murphy `s June 8 post at the LvMI Daily site, and submitted a few comments.

On Bob Murphy`s narrow attack on Krugman`s support for the Waxman-Markey climate bill

TT`s Lost in Tokyo — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:33:23 GMT

I just stumbled into Bob Murphy `s June 8 post at the LvMI Daily site, and submitted a few comments.

On Bob Murphy`s narrow attack on Krugman`s support for the Waxman-Markey climate bill

TT`s Lost in Tokyo — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:33:17 GMT

I just stumbled into Bob Murphy `s June 8 post at the LvMI Daily site, and submitted a few comments.

Executive compensation: Robert Wenzel sees a "United States of Obama"; I see people too frazzled to give a screwdriver to a those who only have a hammer

TT`s Lost in Tokyo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:34:49 GMT

Robert Wenzel has a couple of posts up on his blog that rightly ring alarm bells about the plans of the

Executive compensation: Robert Wenzel sees a "United States of Obama"; I see people too frazzled to give a screwdriver to a those who only have a hammer

TT`s Lost in Tokyo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:34:43 GMT

Robert Wenzel has a couple of posts up on his blog that rightly ring alarm bells about the plans of the

Executive compensation: Robert Wenzel sees a "United States of Obama"; I see people too frazzled to give a screwdriver to a those who only have a hammer

TT`s Lost in Tokyo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:34:29 GMT

Robert Wenzel has a couple of posts up on his blog that rightly ring alarm bells about the plans of the

re: Is there is an objective moral reality? In which I hazard a few thoughts

TokyoTom — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:26:48 GMT

Danny Shahar (whom Gene Callahan predicts "will be a philosophical star very soon") sent me the following comments by email, which post with his permission:

"I think the concerns you voice are pretty much on the money. I agree with the idea that understanding morality is a matter of understanding human psychology. In the comments section of one of the posts on my blog, I laid out the groundwork for my position in a set of ordered propositions; I think it sounds a lot like what you were saying. The proposition to which Gene took exception was the very first: "1) Value is a mental phenomenon which proceeds from evaluation (conscious or unconscious); without evaluating minds it would be incoherent to speak of value." Gene wrote, "#1 is certainly wrong, just as it is true that, without mathematicians, 2 + 2 would still equal 4." But I have no idea what Gene thinks he's saying here; 2+2=4 is simply true by the definition of the terms used. This seems to clearly not be true of the claim, "Capriciously killing is wrong" or "You ought not to kill capriciously."

Do you know what's going on?"

FWIW, Danny`s blog is here: libertarian-left.blogspot.com

re: Is there is an objective moral reality? In which I hazard a few thoughts

TokyoTom — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:01:26 GMT

Bill, many thanks for your level comments.

I think we are on the same page, at least in concluding that there is no "objective" moral order existing outside of mankind (or of life altogether).

As for what objective moral order exists for man, I think that it is readily apparent that we frequently feel conflict between narrow self-interest and conformity with group norms (and the norms of overlapping groups).

It seems to me that the existence of group norms (and their varying rigidity) reflects both genetic and cultural evolution. Yandle has some interesting insights into this in the last article that I link to on this page: mises.org/.../starve-a-cold-feed-a-fever-links-to-austrians-on-environmental-issues.aspx

Further, I would note that we do not uniformly apply group norms to all humans, but treat people differently, depending on mental capacity, familiarity with the rules, membership in the group, status, age, etc. This leads me to question whether there is even a fixed human nature, shared at all times by all humans (from conception theough death).