Re: Occam's Razor

[Herbert Gintis <gintis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>Herb, I am getting a little more confused by the day. Let me tell you why.
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>BTW, I note that you are now using the term productivity instead of efficiency.
	Yes. I don't use efficiency because it's too narrow:
Pareto-efficiency generally is not achieved, and no real world moves
are ever Pareto-superior.

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>You have also avoided directly answering my points. In a capitalist system, i
>think efficiency is about distribution. moves to make the distribution of
>income more egalitarian as you say in the workplace will surely reduce
>capitalist efficiency b/c they must mean less surplus will be realisable.

	I don't know what 'capitalist efficiency' is.

>it is not b/c any marginal equalities are being disturbed though. in a surplus
>world margins are pretty meaningless, n'est-ce pas?

	What is a 'surplus world'?

>I also note you talk about markets, productivity, egalitarianism without
>explicity saying how this is all accounted for. of-course, i know. the market
>you refer to as really an excellent governance form (supplemented by some
>regulations from govt. and community), accounts for things in terms of private
>capitalist costs. productivity will be measured in private capitalist terms.
>egalitarianism will be measured in terms of capitalist measures of national
>income and capitalist employment.
>
	I don't measure any of these things this way. I'm not sure
what this means, anyway. How do you measure productivity?

>a capitalist market place will never be productive in the sense that the two
>dynamic systems of humanity and nature are contemporaneously nourished and
>sustained. capitalism as a system of production has no intrinsic soul when it
>comes to judging humanity or nature. both are just resources to be used in the
>surplusextraction process by a subset of the former. capitalist production has
>no morality, no ethics, and has little eye to the future.
>
	How would you do things differently? That is, what economic
institutions populate your alternative?

Herb gintis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx