Robert Whately, Introductory Lectures on Political Economy
It is with a view to put you on your guard against prejudices thus created, (and you will meet probably with many instances of persons influenced by them,) that I have stated my objections to the name of Political-Economy. It is now, I conceive, too late to think of changing it. A. Smith, indeed, has designated his work a treatise on the “Wealth of Nations;” but this supplies a name only for the subject-matter, not for the science itself. The name I should have preferred as the most descriptive, and on the whole least objectionable, is that of CATALLACTICS, or the “Science of Exchanges.
甚麼 (shen-me)?
Token
1 Aug 12 at 4:20 pm
I don’t know if this is true or not, but why do people slam the Chinese system so much and not question how it is possible for Michael Phelps to do what he does?
I remember that once it was heresy to question Lance Armstrong or Floyd Landes.
Token
1 Aug 12 at 4:23 pm
Because Michael Phelps is a genetic freak. Look at the size of his torso to his legs.
Chinese people are not meant to swim or drive motor cars.
Infidel Tiger
1 Aug 12 at 4:27 pm
More cars are sold in china now than in most countries and maybe even the US
whalehunt fun
1 Aug 12 at 4:31 pm
Ahem, I swim pretty welll if I say so myself, IT.
And my namesake Sun Yang is like 6’6”.
The Japanese, are like the Chinese, East Asians and they are top swimmers. No one accuses the Japs of steroids. It would make sense for East Asians to do better at long distance swimming than short distance and this is the pattern in the Olympics. Their bones are lighter. Blacks have denser bones and no one hears about black swimmers.
jtfsoon
1 Aug 12 at 4:42 pm
It could end up more like Catalepsy, paralysed and cut off from all meaningful activity by an overburden of 24/7 DOS trolls.
blogstrop
1 Aug 12 at 4:43 pm
Have you seen how tall the Chinese grow on the Mongolian border? When you have a billion people you statistically have more freaks to choose from.
Token
1 Aug 12 at 4:46 pm
This site could use some more LOLcats.
m0nty
1 Aug 12 at 5:49 pm
Congrats to Jason for having the insight ten years ago to choose Catallaxy for the name of the blog.
Dandy Warhol
1 Aug 12 at 6:36 pm
And seriously who gives a frog’s fat one about the Olympics anyway. Good on her for winning. Is she on drugs? I don’t care, not interested.
Dandy Warhol
1 Aug 12 at 6:37 pm
And seriously who gives a frog’s fat one about the Olympics anyway.
Not this little black duck.
Unless they bring back chariot racing events then I might be interested.
Gab
1 Aug 12 at 6:42 pm
“Ahem, I swim pretty welll if I say so myself, IT.”
Yeah, but you can’t drive
Jarrah
1 Aug 12 at 7:05 pm
Great idea Gab.
Dandy Warhol
1 Aug 12 at 8:13 pm
Whately’s from Jersey!
Sleetmute
1 Aug 12 at 9:34 pm
Indeed. Kudos to Jason. Good to see you posting comments.
dm
2 Aug 12 at 3:04 am
Gold medal?
Ha!
Look Catallaxians. If you’ve been successful you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own!
I’m always struck by people who think ‘well, it must be because I was just so smart’. There are a lot of smart people out there! ‘It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.’ Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there!
If you’ve got a blog — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen!
sdog
2 Aug 12 at 4:00 am
spot, if someone else made it, shouldn’t they step forward to get their due? But wait! They didn’t make it either! In fact no one made it! The whole thing, all reality, is a social construct – no one made anything!
Blame the gubbermint.
Winston Smith
2 Aug 12 at 7:00 pm