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stoat | May 8, 2012Reading P3 and mt I got stuck at
...economics makes grandiose claims to be the science of collective behavior, or even the science of collective happiness. Yet it dismisses any philosophically interesting aspects of these questions in favor of counting dollar-denominated transactions. Nevertheless, it claims for itself a unique position among the sciences, as the crux, the central weighing mechanism, for all public decision-making.
Leaving to the side, if I can for the moment, the "philosophically interesting" aspects I'm interested in the "central weighing mechanism" point.
It isn't clear to…