Is Math Liberal?

Posted by MaxCasey 10 years, 10 months ago to Books
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I found this article as a post on a LinkedIn group of a certain "High IQ" society of which I am a member. I had my fun arguing with the libs that the suggestion that the right balance of slavery and freedom is not optimal, but I'd like to hear the Gulch's take on the article.

Cheers,
Max

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  • Posted by Solver 10 years, 10 months ago
    The unending sets of experimentation that central planners everywhere have been scheming with is, how much violation of individual rights does it take to force a utopia of equality and fairness for all individuals?
    They even look to numerous forms of matching other people's lives to simplified math problems to get their results to set up their next sets of human experimentation.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 10 months ago
    Sad to have to say that not only my tax dollars are going to support this type of drivel, but my children's tuition (to a totally bloated system - so much so, that just in the past year an audit by the legislature found a BILLION dollars of unaccounted money in various accounts).
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 10 months ago
    There was even a positive book review in WSJ by a physicist. huh. On his take that prosperity to welfare state is non-linear, really a type of Laffer curve, this is easily debunked by objective data on economic growth and prosperity. Even if govt spending was down to levels of 15%, growth continued to increase in any country. Here is a link to the study on db's blog:
    http://hallingblog.com/austerity-why-it-...
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 10 months ago
    Ha. Great analogy. I especially appreciated the navel gazing towards the end. What do you expect from the " mother "? I'm interested in reading his critique of the Laffer Curve
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