tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post5760732017454652521..comments2024-02-29T03:34:23.190-05:00Comments on Who Were the Sea Peoples?: Externalities, customs, and mannersgcallahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-59813919490091787182013-05-12T13:41:35.593-04:002013-05-12T13:41:35.593-04:00Karen Stohr has done recent work on the moral stat...Karen Stohr has done recent work on the moral status of manners. I have not read her book (On Manners), but you can listen to a discussion at New Books in Philosophy:<br /><br />http://newbooksinphilosophy.com/2012/03/15/karen-stohr-on-manners-routledge-2011/<br />Humehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00471731654454581518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-33847575876105650752013-05-02T16:01:52.939-04:002013-05-02T16:01:52.939-04:00Externalities: the great rug under which all of th...Externalities: the great rug under which all of the important details are swept. <br /><br />It's a good observation, Gene, and one which is not at all confined restaurant manners. A large part of academic/policy discussion of economics seems to involve an implicit lobbying as to which externalities we are allowed to factor into our analysis.<br /><br />But I don't think anti-social economists and social revolutionaries doubt that it is good to coordinate on certain standards of behavior. They just think these in particular are silly/wrong/evil and want to fight for their own consciously constructed norms.John Goeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00206464455510064541noreply@blogger.com