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Aug 6Liked by John Keith Hart

"post-autistic economics" LOL. I am literally autistic. As a result I have a strong radar for autistic thinking, and I can tell you much of economics gives me that whiff. Because

1) everything is transactional, not relational. leave me alone, I want no community!

2) human society is seen as a gigantic machine, a computer into which price signals are fed and it computes the distribution of goods as an output.

3) dat physics envy

4) it tries hard to focus on objects over people (price of coal in the 19th century), and when it really has to look at people, it tries to treat them as objects. Bob apparently loves sausages more than he loves his cousin, and if the price of the sausage drops, it predictably presses a "buy more sausages" button on Bob.

I don't know where could one start making an economics for human beings. Is this really possible?

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Sorry, I lost my laptop on holiday and only retrieved it yesterday. My essay uses the anti-modernists of the last century's first half to suggest some ways we might tackle the issue again now. Some great thoughts here. What do you think of The Rain Man movie?

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