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Koweh's avatar

Youre telling me you don't have a notebook where you find optimal ratios of oranges and bananas while grocery shopping?

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Radek's avatar

When you play pool do you busy out a notebook and calculate how physical forces affect the trajectories of the balls?

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Luc's avatar

The only thing I would maybe add into the mix of Sociobiology and econophysics is a biophysical view which incorporates the factor of energy through for example looking at the eroi of different energy sources which in turn dictate to a certain extent the scope of economic activity (in combination with genetic factors ofc). So one dollar, a made-up monkey token, gives you access to x Joule of the society wide energy flows in order for you to temporarily defeat entropy

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Zero Contradictions's avatar

I am surprised to see Steve Keen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Keen) mentioned in this post. Coincidentally, I heard of him around the same time a month ago from a video course (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqJNMM-aDVw).

Anyway, Keen is a great economist. His Wikipedia page should be updated sometime, but he supports Freiwirtschaft economics, which is simple yet brilliant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiwirtschaft

I wrote ~90% of the text in the demurrage currency article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_currency

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Leon Voß's avatar

Banned for being retarded. Go back to the idiot slop you read like Scott Alexander and Richard Hanania

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Dutchy's avatar

I thought there was more than just the bartering myth, but maybe I got fed false info.

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Nie's avatar

social debt theory by graeber and wengrow?

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