tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post1911783551136986514..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Stuff you can't make upUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-48658377420524136772009-11-17T02:23:37.108-05:002009-11-17T02:23:37.108-05:00Oh ye of tin foil hats and pyramids from the neocl...Oh ye of tin foil hats and pyramids from the neoclassical nincompoops. My favorite passage from Smith is found in the wikpdia article on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent#Land_rent" rel="nofollow">economic rent</a><br /><br />"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. The wood of the forest, the grass of the field, and all the natural fruits of the earth, which, when land was in common, cost the labourer only the trouble of gathering them, come, even to him, to have an additional price fixed upon them. He must then pay for the licence to gather them; and must give up to the landlord a portion of what his labour either collects or produces. This portion, or, what comes to the same thing, the price of this portion, constitutes the rent of land (...)"<br /><br />And indirectly From <a href="http://greatervoice.org/essays/LaborTheoryOfCost.php" rel="nofollow">Labor Theory of cost</a>TheTruckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10346127768102862741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-65418555604097004652009-11-16T18:58:42.868-05:002009-11-16T18:58:42.868-05:00And if you read Psalm 46, the 46th word in is &quo...And if you read Psalm 46, the 46th word in is "shake" and the 46th word back is "spear," so...<br /><br />But that at least has the "he was around when they were doing it, worked for money, was known in the Realm, and wrote verse so Psalms would make sense" aura, as opposed to Klein's "gosh, it wasn't all written at once, so clearly it was carefully planned that it kinda sorta happened the way I describe it"Ken Houghtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440837287933536370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-91520860861445443212009-11-16T18:54:50.788-05:002009-11-16T18:54:50.788-05:00Remember, boys and girls:
"I" is at the...Remember, boys and girls:<br /><br />"I" is at the center of "centrifugal".Minnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-21949374904557005562009-11-16T17:14:21.560-05:002009-11-16T17:14:21.560-05:00Except that even if one buys into the weird "...Except that even if one buys into the weird "logic," this argument is not quite there as the phrases do not appear at the exact midpoints of the books, but more like "somewhere near the middle," as in like within 5% of the middle.rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.com