"If you're quick with the knife, you'll find the invisible hand is made of delicious invisible meat"

krispos42

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Fri Sep-30-11 08:37 PM
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"If you're quick with the knife, you'll find the invisible hand is made of delicious invisible meat"

Edited on Fri Sep-30-11 08:56 PM by krispos42

This makes a disturbing about of sense. What would Adam Smith or Milton Friedman make of this?

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Jackpine Radical

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Fri Sep-30-11 08:53 PM
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1. Adam Smith was a helluva lot more humane & rational in his views

than anybody in the Chicago School ever thought of being. Modern "free market" psychopathic economists have terribly distorted what Smith actually was trying to say.

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krispos42

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Fri Sep-30-11 08:55 PM
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2. I started reading "Free Lunch" yesterday.

I put it down in fustrated anger in Chapter... 5? About the CSX case.

Grrr...

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krispos42

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Sat Oct-01-11 12:35 PM
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3. 16-hour kick... n/t

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