Recent content by AeroFunk

Capitalism is private ownership of the means of production. It is not socialism, so I am confused by the title of your thread and the content of your post. Could you please clarify your point. That said let me try to respond to your post. I don't think socialism can be natural, that is...

While I don't know anything about Robert Michel or his theory, I would have to disagree with the premise that "the tendency of the leaders to organize themselves and to consolidate their interests." Why does he make the assumption that leaders will not have conflicting interests? What is the...

I don't think I understand you, if America imports more than it exports this would be even better for America, the country gets goods and services from foreign nations without having to give them as much in return! I think your confusing government debt with trade deficits.

Free Trade is Awesome! Trade is not a zero-sum game. When ever two people engage in an exchange both parties benefit (otherwise they would have agreed to the trade). Trade also expands the division of labor, allowing more specialization, and increased wealth. Any restriction on trade is a...

I just read Steven Pinker's https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143114247/?tag=pfamazon01-20 and if you're interested in grammar, and the philosophy of language in general, I HIGHLY recommend it. It is easy to read and understand and there is something on every page that will make you go "hmmm...

Where in the Constitution does it the government power over corporations? The Constitution was created to be a restraint on government power, the whole of the Constitution is listing things government cannot do.

How do you plan to enforce this. The commercial media will respond to ad revenue, they will air whatever generates the most profit. State owned media will respond to political incentives, whatever agency controls the media will air whatever gives the head of the agency the most votes if he is...

If the media is trying to get as many viewers as they can than they are going to tell people what they want to hear. But to think this will effect how people vote is to assume people are irrational. People should realize that the media is playing to their biases and discount the information...

You are forgetting about compensating differentials, monetary wage is only one form of the real wage workers receive. Working conditions also factor into the wage rate, so jobs with bad working conditions will have to pay a higher monetary wage to compensate for the bad working conditions. The...

I thought Berkeley, Hume, and Kant already dealt with this. What does it mean for something to be an illusion? What does it mean for something to exist? How do we determine reality from fiction? We can have no knowledge of 'things in themselves' all we can sense is 'things as they...

the limits for the price of trade will be whenever the country can produce the good by itself for less cost, for example if B trades for more then 2A then one country would be better off not trading.

Not a completely new idea, the concept of emergence and spontaneous order has been around in economics for awhile now. Still, it sounds interesting, unfortunately the link you put up isn't working for me.

The "do nothing" strategy of Hoover is a myth, he enacted a huge tariff and intervened in the economy a lot, see these http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2008/11/hoover_sings_hi.html"

While I agree its a fuzzy line, it is far from generally being considered a private entity, it is much more public then private, at least that is what I've been taught. I don't really have much more to say other then what I've already posted. The Fed isn't regulated, like energy, but a fully...

Not sure if this is qualifies as biology but, I saw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybVb3t560oY" the other day and was wondering if there were any studies done revealing how animals maintain law and order, do buffalo herds or ant colonies have something resembling a justice system? As an...