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10. James Otteson - Seven Deadly Economic Sins

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The Greatest Thinker in Political Economy, Aristotle, and Hume

Aristotle's notion of virtue, that human life is has a purpose. We can't really develop a purpose for our life unless we understand what this ultimate goal of human life is. David Hume was one of the great, maybe the greatest thinker in political economy. He wrote a bunch of small essays which developed some of the central insights today in economics.

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