Samuelson put the last nail in the coffin of Political Philosophy. The Austrians have been fighting against this emphasis on elegant but perhaps not realistic mathematical representstion of economic ideas since before WWII, I think.

I have read (can’t provide the source) that Pareto was the main culprit of the true mathefication of economics; that he had a bad case of physics envy. But in the Enlightenment context, if not Ricardo, surely some other political philosopher was eventually going to try to do this, no?

I have thought that he should be for years. The management doesn't want a strategist or a thinker for manager. They want someone who players like, who follows Money Ball with blind allegiance; who doesn't understand that averages don't tell the entire statistical story. IMO

Nothing wrong with the Yankees this series, except for mostly bad pitching, mostly bad hitting and consistently bad managing.

Civil authorities should be calling this out now.

An absolute ethical “responsibility,” as interpreted subjectively by self-appointed arbiters of what is good, trumps individual choice guided by ethical principles.

Millennia, not centuries What about Cardano, darn-it! Cardano done it (with a mistake or two).

Possibly, the Project-2025ers have a back-up plan, called JD Vance. I see some saying he was always Plan A and the other person was the tool.

an “unspecified illness.”