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Is this what passes for "insight" in economics nowadays? Can't wait to hear this author use the same logic elsewhere. "It's legal to wish for someone's death,

Is this what passes for "insight" in economics nowadays? Can't wait to hear this author use the same logic elsewhere. "It's legal to wish for someone's death, and legal to hand over briefcases full of cash. In this paper I will demonstrate how hiring a hitman is, in fact, ..." or "It's well-known that hydrogen is an explosive gas, and oxygen is an explosive gas, Q.E.D., the author maintains that the chemical H2O should in fact, also be considered an explosive gas."

Cthulhu_ 3y ago
It's someone with a passing knowledge of logic and expecting justice to work like boolean logic (a && b = true but the current legal system says it's false!)
- Closi 3y ago
  Or people expecting their field gives them infinite knowledge in another. These are both authors from a business school, and it shows. It basically says "In this essay we will use the economic theories of Adam Smith to show why something should be ethically ok from a philosophy of law perspective".
Closi 3y ago
> Can't wait to hear this author use the same logic elsewhere. It doesn’t look pretty - he has written a book with the same logic about how discrimination based on sex, race and sexuality is totally fine.