Futurepundit reports on the damage that globalism does (the crazies waving “capitalism kills” signs may be right):
Creating a new kind of caveman economics in their published paper, they argue early modern humans were first to exploit the competitive edge gained from specialization and free trade. With more reliance on free trade, humans increased their activities in culture and technology, while simultaneously out-competing Neanderthals on their joint hunting grounds, the economists say.
Caveman central planning was clearly called for, directed by scholarly caveman elites residing in bone towers, themselves guided by a post-neolithic deconstructionist world-view of their own devising. This could have introduced the necessary inefficiencies to take away Homo Sapien advantage and keep the playing field level.
“For instance, it is believed that killing large game became a method of acquiring wealth, and that efficient hunters could build up ‘reciprocal obligations’ by exchanging food,” Shogren says of his research. “Such obligations, and the gains from trade in general, provide strong incentives to search for new technologies. One of the striking features of the archaeological record is that Neanderthal technology was nearly stationary for many thousands of years whereas technology of early humans experienced many innovations.”
The only possible explanation for the Neanderthal’s lack of technological progress is Homo Sapien agresssion and oppression.
Adam Smith would not have approved of the Neanderthals.
No doubt he’d have given them the invisible finger. Fascist!
;-)