I suppose I should also add massive spending cuts as an option, but the government is not competent enough to consider this.
Daily Archives: 13 December 2010
Joseph Conrad’s Praxeology
Like Willa Cather, Joseph Conrad was a great economic novelist who maintained a contemptuous distance from the “economic” novel.
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The fullest, indeed the virtually inexhaustible, expression of Conrad’s praxeology is his novel The Secret Agent (1907). Cather thought that her era was characterized by “the revolt against individualism.”[3] Conrad saw something larger: a revolt against human action as it really is. The Secret Agent attempts to explain both the revolt and what it revolts against.
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The praxeology of The Secret Agent emerges from Conrad’s interest in a certain group of characters — political radicals — who are engaged in plotting, or at least in ardently desiring, the downfall of the capitalist system. These people have their own theories about human action, theories that Conrad finds enticing targets for ridicule. From the ruins of their ideologies, he retrieves much that is useful by an opposing system of thought.
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I had no idea. How interesting!
Three Myths about Trash
There are three things everybody knows when we talk trash:
1. We know we’re running out of landfill space;
2. we know we’re saving resources and protecting the environment by recycling; and
3. we know no one would recycle if they weren’t forced to.
Let’s look at these three things we think we know. Are they real or are they rubbish? (Read more from mises.org)