Preliminary Notes for Four Book Projects
1) Towards an Economic Constitution: Reducing the Principals/Agents Problems Inherent in Government
2) The State Against Women: Why Women Should Embrace Libertarianism
3) The Economics of Time
4)Government: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
*)Article Idea: Does the movement away from physical transfers of money cause the real value of money to converge to the pure, quantity theory?
**)Refuting Malthus---birth rate costs cause birth level to equilibriate; carrying capacity of earth is high; more labor means gains in productivity from trade and greater brain power; we are not like spock and can control our breeding. Also, the largest number of children a woman can have is really 27. Productivity has vastly outstripped this. Schumpeter and Godwin both refuted him: Why aren't these refutations better known? Also, Malthus opposed birth control, which is idiotic---speaking ill of Condorcet. Also, as productivity goes up, opportunity cost of having a child goes up. Also, Malthus later nearly refutes himself.)
----an idea for a related article: Muslim Treatment of Women as Economic Regulation. The basic idea will be to show that the treatment women receive in the ME is actually meant to reduce the opportunity cost they associate with having children. This in turn produces more children and later, more soldiers.
***) Fertility and Argument Grabbing (Ann's no drugs while welfare fits this too).
****)A Problem with the Legal System of Precedent: Linguistic change is more substantial the further back in time you go. This means that decisions that have precedent over later ones will be more prone to being misunderstood. What are the repercussions of this on Common Law and the English Constitution.
*****)The Effect of Socialism on Birth Rates: Basic idea, use Godwin's idea about maintaining living standards and Schumpeter's refutation of Malthus. Show opportunity cost and desire to maintain standard of living prevent "overpopulation" even though such is unlikely ever to occur (go into discussion of labor implementation. Quote Schumpeter). Go into structure of production is fixed premise behind Iron law of wages.
Then show that the same logic Godwin used---and Malthus conceded about getting the poor to become more middle class in the second edition so that they will be tempted to practice restraint---has the reverse effect of artificially reducing birth rates under socialism. Because the state takes, people economize by having fewer children. Negative effect on pension schemes which become inverted pyramid.
******)The Case Against the Humanities: Or Why the Humanities Must Adopt Scientific Methods or Perish
(The key insight of public choice theory is that there IS NO GOVERNMENTAL INTENTION. Intention requires a mind. Government has no mind---only individuals do. Government can only be explained by the goals of its individual actors: Nothing else. Also, "we" means all these people share the same intention or it refers to an appointed representative or an authority.)
A)Are Walras's Law and Say's Law Equivalent
B)Plutocratic Voting as an Alternative to Taxation
C)Manners as an Economic Phenomenon
D)How Will the Debt Affect the War on Terror?