09-10-2017, 10:51 AM
(09-09-2017, 09:02 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(09-09-2017, 03:13 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(09-09-2017, 01:46 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(09-08-2017, 09:19 AM)David Horn Wrote:(09-06-2017, 07:11 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: The error in your logic is that, like many on the left, you incorrectly assume that supply and demand are scalars rather than functions.
Frankly, I'm baffled by this comment. If there is an implication to this, please be a bit less opaque.
If you want to understand it better, I'd suggest brushing up on your algebra and calculus, or learning them if you haven't. While in theory I could try to teach them to you on this forum, there are far more efficient ways for you to learn them, and frankly my algebra teaching attention is fully taken up by my daughter.
Or maybe, just speak English..... the "many of the left" do not think in terms of scalars and functions, although you say they have opinions and assumptions about supply and demand. We don't need to re-study algebra just in order to understand your post.
If you're going to understand the quantitative aspects of economics and understand how the economy actually works, you have to use algebra, and in the case of understanding Georgist land taxes, an understanding of calculus is pretty necessary as well. If you don't think of economics in mathematical terms, you're not really using economics at all; you're just making political arguments couched in misused economic terminology. I do understand that the left is often happy to misuse economics in this way, but the truth is, economics without math is as worthless as physics without math.
Speaking in terms of "Georgist land taxes" is not speaking English either. Throwing terms around without defining them is just one-upmanship, hoping to win an argument by default because no-one can understand you. Define your terms, or don't use them.