¶ Economics
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It is notable that the hard sciences and mathematics have discovered ever experimentally-reverifiable generalizations. But the social scientists and the behaviorists have not discovered anywhere-everywhere, experimentally-reverifiable generalizations. Only economics cannot be regarded as other than special-case: that of the utterly uninhibited viewpoint of the individual. Nature’s own simplest instructional trick in its economic programming is to give us something we call “hunger” so that we will eat, take in regenerative energy. Arbitrarily contrived ‘scarcity’ is the only kind of behavioral valving that the economists understand. There is no other way the economists know how to cope. Selfishness is a drive so that we’ll be sure to regenerate. It has nothing to do with morals. These are organic chemical compounds at work. Stones do not have hunger.
(This is an amplification of Economics, 16 Feb’73.)
