[lbo-talk] Wealth Distribution & Kinetic Theor

[Jerry Monaco]

On 4/26/07, Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net> wrote:
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> From: "Jerry Monaco" <monacojerry at gmail.com>
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> Well, look at the abstract again:
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> Economists who yearn for the redistribution of wealth in an ideal
> society are up against history. According to a recent study, the
> uneven distribution of wealth in a society appears to be a universal
> law that holds true for economies in many different societies, from
> ancient Egypt to modern Japan and the U.S. This distribution may
> reflect a simple natural law analogous to a 100-year-old theory
> describing the distribution of energy in a gas.
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> ............So, take your own advice. If the above isn't a poor attempt to
> cloak
> a deterministic approach to investigating historico-economic processes,
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> with the implied claim that the invisible hand is more powerful than
> individual/collective agents, I don't know what is.

JM:  The ideological claims and commitments of the authors are obvious.  Who
cares? ... But your own ideological blindness is also not in question.

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