Is this a regional name for the food? Or a regional dish?

“Post-​​autistic eco­nom­ics” (PAE) is the name now taken by those few econ­o­mists who hope to res­cue the dis­ci­pline from the neo­clas­si­cal model; the name is an homage to the dis­si­dent French stu­dents, whose man­i­festo called the stan­dard model “autis­tic.” It is a hilar­i­ously apt (albeit mildly offen­sive) diag­no­sis, and it could be just as well applied to Homo eco­nom­i­cus him­self, the eco­nomic actor envi­sioned by the neo­clas­si­cal the­ory, who per­forms daz­zling cal­cu­la­tions of util­ity max­i­miza­tion despite being entirely unable to com­mu­ni­cate with his fel­low man.

“My father the anthro­pol­o­gist and I are alike in one way at least: we don’t suf­fer fruit­less sys­tems in silence. In one way at least, we are dif­fer­ent: I can­not con­tent myself with com­plain­ing to the pow­er­less and uninvolved.”

“Dereg­u­late “the copy”: Copy­right law is trig­gered every time there is a copy. In the dig­i­tal age, where every use of a cre­ative work pro­duces a “copy,” that makes as much sense as reg­u­lat­ing breath­ing. The law should also give up its obses­sion with “the copy,” and focus instead on uses — like pub­lic dis­tri­b­u­tions of copy­righted work — that con­nect directly to the eco­nomic incen­tive copy­right law was intended to foster.”

“We think they [Google] are doing great stuff,” Kahle said in a 2006 inter­view with CNET. “If the mate­ri­als would be made avail­able for broad pub­lic search and edu­ca­tional use we’d be all for it.”

“This deci­sion has con­firmed what was already obvi­ous from a plain read­ing of the statutes, that Min­nesota cities can use their bond­ing author­ity for deploy­ing the essen­tial infra­struc­ture of the next century.”

“…How are such things as edi­tions, states, vari­ants, or even the book itself to be dis­cussed? To what extent is a printed book sin­gu­lar? And to what extent does the (inac­cu­rate) schol­arly assump­tion that it is not, enable rea­son­able and use­ful dis­cus­sion of such objects to proceed?”

“Assume, as Roo­sevelt did, a pop­u­la­tion in which there are some weak-​​minded peo­ple, prone to vio­lence. What makes such peo­ple fix­ate on a pub­lic fig­ure? Roo­sevelt thought it could only be the lan­guage, bor­der­ing on incite­ment, with which it had become accept­able to attack pub­lic figures.”

“I have not even touched on the fas­ci­nat­ing pos­si­bil­i­ties of inter­stel­lar finance, where spot and for­ward exchange mar­kets will have to be sup­ple­mented by con­di­tional present markets.”