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by Direwolf18 » Sun Jun 08, 2014 5:40 pm | |
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The problem with Houseman is he is the epitome of the Ivory Tower intellectual who is CLEARLY smarter then everyone else under creation, and the lesser peasants should bow down to his immensely more qualified intellect.
Oh and he has a strong case of tunnel vision. |
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by namelessfly » Sun Jun 08, 2014 6:52 pm | |
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Amen!
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by Dieu_Le_Fera » Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:45 am | |
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Battleship captains lack offensive "mindedness"... if that is even a word. "Battle Cruisers lead the way!"
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by Tenshinai » Mon Jun 09, 2014 11:19 am | |
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I would expect that considering just how much critique game theory, especially in it´s more original guises, have taken just in the last half century, it might have been either more or less discounted due to uncertain evidence or absorbed into some other part and made less "visible". The basic problem is that people don´t behave like theories say they should. Which is a fundamental flaw of the whole thing. |
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by Commodore Oakius » Mon Jun 09, 2014 11:48 am | |
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I fully agree. Boiled down to absolute basics, no influence from any other issues, Masada would be a logical trading partner for Grayson. Enter religion: MASADA?!?!?!?!?!? NO its not.
He is also a armchair business man. Why should a little thing like religon get in the way of profits? Houseman is Capitalism with blinders. I love capitalism but it must take into account the fact that people with differences, religious and non-religious, hellbent on killing eachother dont really care about profits over death of the opposition. He is a great classical classroom economist, White tower intellectual, but in the real world, he fails to see things that overule profit. |
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by Howard T. Map-addict » Mon Jun 09, 2014 12:57 pm | |
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Maybe not there, but there are such ways in Heaven!
HTM
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by Howard T. Map-addict » Mon Jun 09, 2014 1:04 pm | |
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Excuse me, wasn't that Plato's approach?
ISTR that Aristotle looked for data in the Real World (or should that be "Nominal World?"). HTM
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by lyonheart » Tue Jun 10, 2014 3:10 pm | |
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Hi Commodore Oakius,
Actually if you remembered or re-read the background of TSVW, Houseman graduated from Mannheim on Manticore, known to all Manticorans apparently as Socialist U., so he is hardly a true capitalist, NTM being a Liberal Party member, though his family is quite wealthy. Given even a partial Marxist approach to religion, his blindness to the realities of the conflict are more obvious beyond his colossal arrogance. There have been references since WroH regarding Houseman's fall with the rest of the High Ridge government. We might reduce the number of abused electrons on some of these threads if some people read, reviewed or remembered their source materiel better. L
I fully agree. Boiled down to absolute basics, no influence from any other issues, Masada would be a logical trading partner for Grayson. Enter religion: MASADA?!?!?!?!?!? NO its not.
Any snippet or post from RFC is good if not great!
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by Hank Plantagenet » Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:16 pm | |
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In some ways, the Houseman character reminds me of Norman Angell and his pre-WWI theory that the economies of European powers were so intertwined as to make war an impossibility, and militaries useless. |
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by hanuman » Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:36 pm | |
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Since power and wealth are so intricately interconnected, I've often thought that economists are probably THE academics who are most likely to be swayed by the temptation to 'adjust' their conclusions to fit their prejudices. Not that it doesn't happen - a lot - in other fields, mind you.
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