Agreed on Falun Gong, though I have no particular liking for the regime in Beijing.
I think that poor ol' Xi, and indeed the whole gang of them, are trying to figger out a way out of the Marxism box, and we should tolerate them from afar as they struggle with their problem.
Thanks for the "like" on comparative advantage, by the way. There's a saying, I think by Galbraith, perhaps by one of the more recent nobelists, that all of economics is obvious except for comparative advantage. I don't think that's quite true: I think that economics is riddled with erroneous assumptions around the notion of normal distributions, a total fantasy, but they're right that comparative advantage is subtle, useful, and generally misunderstood.
Plain ol' advantage, by contrast, is usually obvious.
Agreed on Falun Gong, though I have no particular liking for the regime in Beijing.
I think that poor ol' Xi, and indeed the whole gang of them, are trying to figger out a way out of the Marxism box, and we should tolerate them from afar as they struggle with their problem.
Thanks for the "like" on comparative advantage, by the way. There's a saying, I think by Galbraith, perhaps by one of the more recent nobelists, that all of economics is obvious except for comparative advantage. I don't think that's quite true: I think that economics is riddled with erroneous assumptions around the notion of normal distributions, a total fantasy, but they're right that comparative advantage is subtle, useful, and generally misunderstood.
Plain ol' advantage, by contrast, is usually obvious.
Cheers,
-dlj,.
Thanks for educating me about Falun Gong and Shen Yun. I had no idea about either of these.
Hey, having just glanced at them, the "Shen Yun" results on Youtube are interesting. You'll meet allies there.