On the latest This Week in Tech, guest panelist and sci-fi author Jerry Pournelle has an interesting anecdote about his involvement with a copyright squabble between Fox and Universal in the 1970s concerning Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica. As noted on Wikipedia:
In America today, for every problem, a national “solution” is proposed, regardless of how individual or local the issues are. Whether we consider housing, education, energy, transportation, finance, labor markets, the automobile industry or the current attempted takeover of the health care and insurance industries, we are overwhelmed with ever more “federal government knows best” policies and programs centralized in Washington. And what it does not mandate, the federal government manipulates with its ability to massively redistribute income.
[This article is excerpted from Economic Thought Before Adam Smith.]
The views of the great philosopher Aristotle are particularly important because the entire structure of his thought had an enormous and even dominant influence on the economic and social thought of the high and late Middle Ages, which considered itself Aristotelian.
[Originally published in Inquiry (October 27, 1980), pp. 24–27.]
Most economists assess the so-called economy in terms of gross domestic product, or GDP.
This post is one in a series entitled Posthumous Refutations. Previously in this series: Absolving with Faint Criticism: A Media and Real Estate Mogul Defends the Fed.
This post is one in a series entitled Posthumous Refutations. Previously in this series: Capitalism, Competition, Collaboration, and Kindness.
This post is one in a series entitled Posthumous Refutations.
