For more than 100 years, academic economists' discussion of Marx's own value theory, including his law of the tendential fall in the profit rate, has had one single central focus. They have attempted ...

Absolute consistency is repetitive to the point of boredom. In order to mine its benefits without putting your users to sleep, you need to know when to break the monotony. For example, you can see ...

What's the most intelligent animal on the planet? It all depends on the definition of intelligence, of course, but most people would answer that humans are at the top of the intelligence pyramid. It's ...

Among the myriad perplexities of our recent presidential elections is the apparent paradox by which a voter base presumably made largely of moral individuals voted in droves for a candidate who has ...

This campaign season, inconsistency seems to be, well, almost everywhere. Each flip-flopping politician revels in pointing out the flip-flopping ways of his opponents. Why are politicians and those of ...

All parents sometimes promise future rewards to their children, and eventually, not all of these promises will be kept. However, some parents feel more obligated to let action follow words, while ...

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