Re:European Union

["A. S. Fatemi" <fatemi@xxxxxx>]

Hyman's writing on the "Property and the State" suffers from a
methodological error in using the argument of "time" for definition of
property rights: Economics, as a social science, does not have an
existence theorem. This is to say that economics takes the man and the
society as the a priori requisites for its own subject matter. "The limit
of life", as used by Hyman, is an attribute of man's biological
"existence" to which the social science is an a posteriori construction.
To use such a pre-required element in an argument about a category belonging
to the "a posteriori", is a methodological confusion and thus
irrelevant.


H. Mansoor
Economist