Jon Bostwick agrees on another post that "Man is clever but not wise ("homo sapiens" is a misnomer)", but further comments (emphasis added): "True. But humanity is wise. Men create cultures, economies and law. "Man's flaw is that he is over confident of his own intelligence...
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TokyoTom
on Mon, Oct 15 2007
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[My very first post on this LvMI-hosted blog. Also, I see this was my first "Avatar"-related piece.] Dan McLaughlin asks the first of these interesting questions on the Mises blog, http://mises.org/daily/2718 . The second question is mine, and I addressed it briefly in the blog responses to...
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TokyoTom
on Thu, Sep 27 2007
Filed under: tragedy of commons, environment, Malthus, mises, property, markets, ostrom, yandle, fisheries