This blog is named "Unenumerated" for a variety of reasons, including
(1) the Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states the most basic (but most ignored) law of the United States, namely that our civil rights, which should be enforced by the courts, are so vast and varied that they cannot be enumerated, and
(2) the list of topics for this blog, which is so vast and varied that it cannot be enumerated.
Saturday, October 15, 2005
A Measure of Sacrifice
My article A Measure of Sacrifice explains why
(1) the kind of contract that dominates most of our lives (i.e., employment) is usually measured by effort rather than output, and
(2) why the clock and the sandglass, involving two almost completely different craft traditions, were invented at the same time and place in history.
(1) the kind of contract that dominates most of our lives (i.e., employment) is usually measured by effort rather than output, and
(2) why the clock and the sandglass, involving two almost completely different craft traditions, were invented at the same time and place in history.
Shelling Out -- The Origins of Money
A few months ago I updated my paper on the origins of money. There are a number of ideas in here involving transaction cost economics and evolutionary psychology, with evidence from anthropology and archaeology. The article updates and critiques Carl Menger's theory of the origin of money.
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