06-21-2011, 11:04 PM
Hi,
Yes. That is one of the requirements for "true" communism to work (or, looking at it from a different point of view, a common excuse why all attempts at communism to date have failed). I think it says something that capitalism can work in a world that has everything from (almost) a laissez-faire free market to strict communism, but communism needs to be protected to thrive.
Economists need to spend less time reading Smith and Marx and looking at history and more reading Johnny von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern and looking at game theory. Especially the results from studying and modeling the prisoners' dilemma which are coming very close to explaining what we call "ethical" behavior, including ethical economic behavior. Not to mention explaining why we are so much ruder on the highway (automotive or informational) than in person.
--Pete
(06-21-2011, 10:40 PM)Nystul Wrote: What we need is a single Communist World State, ...
Yes. That is one of the requirements for "true" communism to work (or, looking at it from a different point of view, a common excuse why all attempts at communism to date have failed). I think it says something that capitalism can work in a world that has everything from (almost) a laissez-faire free market to strict communism, but communism needs to be protected to thrive.
Economists need to spend less time reading Smith and Marx and looking at history and more reading Johnny von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern and looking at game theory. Especially the results from studying and modeling the prisoners' dilemma which are coming very close to explaining what we call "ethical" behavior, including ethical economic behavior. Not to mention explaining why we are so much ruder on the highway (automotive or informational) than in person.
--Pete
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