![]() ![]() ![]() This brings me to a specific example, to show Cipolla’s crystal clear insight. ![]() You can be intelligent and stupid.Īnd two, to show that economists can have useful insights into the human condition. Stupid people are the ones who harm others and often themselves, while the behaviour of intelligent people is aimed at helping others. Not stupid on the face of it, although as he points out, intelligence or IQ has nothing to do with the basic laws of stupidity. He was no slouch, a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the American Philosophical Society. I bring this up for two reasons: one, to insure myself against a tirade when I call those people stupid I am using the term in the Cipolla sense, recognising these laws as set out by the Italian economic historian Carlo Cipolla in 1976, who died in 2000. ‘A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while him/herself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.’ There are five such laws, as we’ll see, but No. Qualifying for the 3rd Basic Law of Human Stupidity is effortless for some, especially when they talk about the old anthropogenic global warming claptrap aka Climate Change (but not only). ![]()
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