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Dale Halling – Economics, Evolution, and Rand’s Meta-Ethics: Atlas Summit 2016

Posted by dbhalling 8 years, 2 months ago to News

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Posted by mshupe 8 years, 2 months ago

Dale - I'm currently reading The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley. Fascinating, however I'll need to re-read the chapter discussing the evolution of the human mind as I don't think I understood a lot of it, particularly his observations about consciousness and free will. Are you familiar with his work?

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  Posted by dbhalling 8 years, 2 months ago
  
  I have read Ridley's The Rational Optimist and it is very flawed as I pointed out in my other comment. I looked up a book review of his Evolution of Everything. Ridley's ideas in this book are just a rehash of Hayek ideas on Cultural Evolution. Hayek's idea was that societies make changes slowly (learn) and those societies that make the right changes, which we cannot determine beforehand with reason, thrive and those that make the wrong change, which we cannot determine beforehand with reason, fail.
  
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  Posted by dbhalling 8 years, 2 months ago
  
  Matt Ridley says a number of the right things but he ignores all evidence that disagrees with his thesis.
  
  He is also confused that trade is the driver of economics (everything unique to man)
  
  See http://hallingblog.com/2010/07/22/the... and
  http://hallingblog.com/2015/12/01/lib...
  
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Posted by Zenphamy 8 years, 2 months ago

This presentation, i'd love to hear.

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  Posted by dbhalling 8 years, 2 months ago
  
  If you are in Vegas and let me know I can get a pass or something to hear my talk for free - of course you cannot see the other talks
  
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