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by throwaway729
3451 days ago
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> An-Capism is as un-utipian as you can get while still having some vauge definition of an ideal system... Most AnCaps happily admit that the assumed society would not be near perfect. Perhaps. That doesn't make it any less Utopian in my book. > I don't think the axioms are that special, its basic rational choice political science/economics that is applied in most AnCap arguments. Depends on the writer. There certainly are writers for whom this is true. IMO it's not true of Molyneux, to name one. Of course, rational choice is not special, but it is an enormous assumption that we're pretty sure is not a realistic description of how people actually behave... |
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Molyneux is no longer an AnCap, he has gone of and is basically something on its own now.
There are actual economics/poetical science PhD working on this stuff, see for example Peter Leeson, Bryan Caplan.
> Of course, rational choice is not special, but it is an enormous assumption that we're pretty sure is not a realistic description of how people actually behave...
Rational choice in this context means not Homo Economicus (as in mathematical maximisation of expected outcome) but rather rational choice limited by information and so on. This assumtion is much weaker and applies to enough people as to make it useful.
Its basically what much micro economics and political science already does. I don't know what better scientific disciplines we have to make better evaluation of theoretical system of humans.