
Computing Morality
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Part I: Creating an Ethical Mental Model from Scratch
- Laying the Groundwork
- Putting It All Together
- Well-Intentioned (but Contradictory) Socialist Attempts to Expand on This Moral System
- Part II: Creating an Economic Mental Model: Problems of the World and How We Overcome Them
- The Importance of a Mental Model
- The Fundamental Problem
- The Fundamental Solution
- Putting the "Capital" in "Capitalism"
- The Power of Capital for the Common Person
- We Are All Capitalists
- Tying Spending, Savings, Consumption, and Capital Together
- Why You Cannot Spend Your Way Out of Problems
- How Do We Escape Poverty?
- Computer Science Topic #8: The Deadly Exponential Function
- A Silver Lining-The Power of Capital
- The Fundamental Solution Restated
- The Real Question
- Injection of Ethics Into Our Economic System
- Part III: Our Model in Action
- Farmer Joe in Grinding and Abject Poverty
- Joe's Angels and Demons
- The Great Escape
- Meet Farmer Bob
- The Great Escape: Part II
- Part IV: Advanced Topics and Common Misconceptions
- The Force of Nature vs. the Force of Man
- Price Controls on Necessities
- Direct Government Provision of Necessities
- Misunderstanding the Magic Formula
- Labor Is an Input to Production and Is Not the Same as Ownership
- More Spending (and Consumption) Is Not Always Good
- Capitalism Is a Big Value Voting Machine
- Cronyism Is Not Capitalism
- The Link Between Government Spending and Government Control
- Spending Your Way Out of Problems, Revisited
- Do We Need a Reset of Capital Allocation?
- The Ethical and Practical Issue With Wealth Transfers
- Part V: The Intersection of Politics, Economics, the Laws of Nature, and Ethics
- Laws of Nature, Moral Systems, and Economic Systems
- A Political System Should Rely on a Moral System-and Not the Other Way Around
- Part VI: Practical Economics and Ethics
- Weakness #1: Free Markets Cannot Enforce Laws and Prevent the Breaching of Our Axiomatic System
- Weakness #2: Inability to Provide Public Goods
- Weakness #3: Negative and Positive Externalities
- Weakness #4: Monopolies
- Part VII: Final Thoughts
- Sources
- About the Author
- Back Cover
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