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When you think you choose the "right" methodology to analyze your data, you are eliciting an a priori on the model. There is nothing objective in that.
And if your a priori is degenerate, well, you are not objective, you're are just infringing Cromwell's rule.
Bad for you.
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“Say’s Law,” which claims there is a necessary equilibrium between buying and selling or that supply necessarily induces an equal demand, is only valid when the circulation of commodities (mediated by money) is equated with direct barter: only then does each “sale” coincide with a simultaneous “purchase.” Thus when classical and neoclassical economics purport to substantiate the claim of an inherently crisis-free capitalism, they basically assume a capitalism without money.
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital
Michael Heinrich
Group selection doesn’t eliminate immoral behaviors so much as it elevates them to the level of between-group interactions. Altruism within groups can become a form of collective selfishness toward other groups.
This View of Life
David Sloan Wilson
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