Edward Hadas

Catholic Social Teaching , economics, philosophy of economics, other stuff. My book about money and finance:

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My new book is out: https://t.co/yvXSG8GxGl
It is like the title says: Money [a quite new approach], Finance [an extremely novel approach], Reality [too much finance is reality-distant] and Morality [greed in finance]. The book is expensive! But I hope worth reading.

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My latest: on the justice of being a trillionaire
https://t.co/ufpaGrEaIw

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@ParanoidPol As they used to say in the Soviet Union about government narratives: the future is fixed, but the past keeps changing.

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Something new by me: about philosophy as the handmaid of religion: https://t.co/dHrWMIdlif

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"When business models thrive on human weakness, the person is treated as a means rather than as an end; those who design or finance such systems bear a moral responsibility that cannot be ignored." Leo XIV. Design or finance: strong words.

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No Latin for Magnifica. But no point in latinising this: "...especially in the case of large language models, the need for computing power and storage capacity grows too...extensive network of machines, cables, data centers and energy-intensive infrastructure."

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"Magnifica humanitatis" is a great document. For more background, well, I wrote a book on Catholc Social Teaching that, I think, thinks like Leo XIV.
https://t.co/sZ9XzEppDr

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@JoshHochschild I'm going to go over the encyclical for Radio Maria England. You have just made my life a lot easier!

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@mr_james_c Saving for pensions makes no sense at a national level. Future consumption for all pensioners is a portion of future production -- no direct relation to past production. IMO, the portion's size should be determined politically, or within families, not by markets and ignorance.

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@HusseinAboubak Habermas lived a long time, but not quite long enough to become Christian. Still, he could almost see that Ratzinger had something that his "discourse" could not provide. All post-Feuerbach philosophy suffers from chronic God-loss.

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A new post elsewhere (an old speech, but it still looks good to me). Three types of universities: vocational, professional, and technocratic. A sort of prolegomena to thinking about AI in universities. https://t.co/ikEXkZHif9

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@GuthmannR All of the Hayek stuff is a bit bizarre, as if central planning was necessarily all or nothing. Modern economies rely on immense amounts of central planning, as do modern corporations (they plan their capex). Besides, prices are only OK signals -- a lot of noise.

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@herandrews @WaywardRabbler https://t.co/UXiX5yOfyU

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@suzania Four years later, I wrote this longer piece about medicine, with Covid in the background: https://t.co/S9ypW7asws

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@suzania You might like this lecture that I gave (print version in a couple of weeks) about technocracy and healthcare. https://t.co/UzpHtuZh0w

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@HusseinAboubak It is a myth that contemporary American politics has more than a tenuous genealogical tie with the 18th century thinkers. You are far better off studying those Continentals -- more insightful and far more world-shaping.

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@ScottMcConnell9 That is an excellent article. I would add that the "cultural" reckoning is ultimately moral. We need to repeal "the financial exception", the belief that in finance greed is good, or at least not bad. I write about it in my book: https://t.co/z0ZsBEoK2a

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@jbarro I'm worried about that "severely" -- I think she means that writing took a severe toll, or something like that, but the use of such stray adverbs suggests that she needs more time in a university studying transphobic English grammar.

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@ZoharAtkins @KatieMiller @joinlightning Mill was certainly woke for his day. He was a pioneer (if secret) atheist and an extreme "feminist". His liberty was centred on letting geniuses do their thing, which was uber-enlightenment, i.e. woke.

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@HusseinAboubak Will the "genealogy of the fiction of gay" be less or more controversial than your analysis of radical Islam as German ideology dressed up in Islamic vocabulary?

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@zriboua Important book, IMO

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Something new from me, on poverty in a more affluent world: https://t.co/mRAtfwkaCn