Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Economics and Behavior
I must regress from pursuing the issue of soverienty and begin to
address the issues again of economics and behaviors, as there is
clearly a direct connection to these concepts. In a world where
one might conclude that a big pile of cash is what sovereignty
means, suggests that deeper insights into the ideas of economics
are important.
So for example, I have previously suggested that in modern times
the greatest treatise on economics in the modern world was the
Quran, from the tradition of Islam. Now why do I say that?
If you notice what happened in the 200 year period
after the Quran and Mohammed you see the greatest
transformation in world culture, that you would have to go back
to antiquity to see the equal of.
A positive growth in human knowledge and capacity. So I have
said and I generally do believe that we are living in a mostly Islamic
culture today.
But anyone is of course free to disagree with that view point,
in the big picture what is important is to consider how, the
notion of economics and behavior are directly connected.
First of all, it is necessary to reflect on what is the most important
and most highly rewarded human activity. It is simply to serve our
fellow man. The whole notion of customer is simply, that person
who is to be served by an enterprise or endeavor.
Now the tricky part and a venture that also has " rewards " is the
effort to figure out what is the best way to do that?
And this is important, and we need to consider that in order to achieve
that result , how to organize our efforts to maximize their effect is
a serious endeavor and requires great energy of a very coherent type.
In order to achieve that kind of coherent energy requires what is
often refered to as virtue. And now, this is a clear indication of the
importance of this behavior, and why the cultivation of virtue is so
important for the advancement of human culture.
Now if you can figure out how to make this into a liberal or a conservative
issue, well that's great, but I don't see that.
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