Lars P. Syll

Wenn doch Trump nur Habermas lesen könnte! Das neue Buch von Jürgen Habermas ist auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie. Es gibt im Stil einer Genealogie darüber Auskunft, wie die heute dominanten Gestalten des westlichen nachmetaphysischen Denkens entstanden sind. Als Leitfaden dient ihm der Diskurs über Glauben und Wissen, der aus zwei starken achsenzeitlichen Traditionen im römischen Kaiserreich hervorgegangen ist. Habermas zeichnet nach, wie sich die...

Maurice Allais on empirics and theory Submission to observed or experimental data is the golden rule which dominates any scientific discipline. Any theory whatever, if it is not verified by empirical evidence, has no scientific value and should be rejected. Maurice Allais Formalistic deductive “Glasperlenspiel” can be very impressive and seductive. But in the realm of science, it ought to be considered of little or no value to simply make claims about the...

Spirit in the Sky (personal)  [embedded content] Marcel Proust hade sin Madeleinekaka. Jag har musiken. Den här låten är för mig alltid förknippad med sommarminnen från Hästveda och Luhrsjön, där jag och bästa kompisen Johan (Ehrenberg) brukade spela flipper vid strandcaféet och den här låten gick varm på jukeboxen. Oförglömliga minnen som fortfarande värmer.

Markus Rosenberg — liraren i mitt MFF-hjärta  [embedded content] Tror det är dags byta ut en viss staty vid Malmö stadion …

What is (wrong with) mainstream economics? If you want to know what is neoclassical economics — or mainstream economics as we call it nowadays — and turn to Wikipedia you are told that neoclassical economics is a term variously used for approaches to economics focusing on the determination of prices, outputs, and income distributions in markets through supply and demand, often mediated through a hypothesized maximization of utility by income-constrained...

Feel I’m goin’ back to Massachusetts  [embedded content]

The Kings and Queens with their quiet dirty looks  [embedded content]

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Mark Lilla et la gauche identitaire  [embedded content]

The financial crisis of 2007-08 hit most laymen and economists with surprise. What was it that went wrong with our macroeconomic models, since they obviously did not foresee the collapse or even make it conceivable? There are many who have ventured to answer this question. And they have come up with a variety of answers, ranging from the exaggerated mathematization of economics to irrational and corrupt politicians. But the root of our problem goes much deeper. It ultimately...