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Fallimenti prevedibili,
https://www.econlib.org/socialist-fantasies/
La critica misesiana al socialismo vale ancora al tempo dei super calcolatori? C'è chi dice no.
The ‘computational argument’ is relevant, and…recent advances in computer technology do make possible an effective socialist planning systemGood enough technology, in other words, eliminates the need for math, and eliminates the argument that socialist planning is a technical impossibility.
Arguments like Cottrell and Cockshott’s, it seems to me, present a more important challenge for twenty-first-century classical liberals and libertarians than the easily mocked arguments of old-style planners
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/05/expand-vs-fight-social-justice-fertility-bioconservatism-and-ai-risk.html
Most people talk too much about values relative to facts, as they care more about showing off their values than about learning facts. So I usually avoid talking values. But I’ll make an exception today for this value: expanding rather than fighting about possibilities.
This distinction between expanding and fighting is central to standard economic analysis. We economists distinguish “efficiency improving” policies that expand possibilities from “redistribution”
But in fact most people find a lot more emotional energy in fights
They instead get far more energized by efforts to help us win against themmuch “social justice” energy is directed toward finding, outing, and “deplatforming” enemies
Consider bioconservatism. Some look forward to a future where they’ll be able to change the human body, adding extra senses, and modifying people to be smarter, stronger, more moral, and even immortal. Others are horrified by and want to prevent such changes,
https://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/2019/05/political-activism-and-research-ethics-revisited/
Researchers who study politics should avoid activism, he argues, because it raises the risk of biasing their work
unreasonable demands.
avoiding politics and retreating to the ivory tower may not help much
http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/a-theory-of-the-glass-ceiling-2/
We may think of the CEO as trying to navigate in a confusing forest using only little scraps of a map. The CEO operates with a theory of the business and fits those little map scraps into the theory.
propensity for abstract thinking in business. In that case, that could explain the predominance of males as CEOs.
https://www.econlib.org/socialism-the-provocative-equivocation/
The socialists are back, but is it a big deal? It’s tempting to say that it’s purely rhetorical. Modern socialists don’t want to emulate the Soviet Union. To them, socialism just means “Sweden,” right? Even if their admiration for Sweden is unjustified, we’ve long known that the Western world contains millions of people who want their countries to be like Sweden. Why should we care if Sweden-fans rebrand themselves as “socialists”?