On Conservatism and Evangelism in Social Sciences

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A Report of Social Experiments held in Biblical Era

Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember? When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve. And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven. And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand? *1

An Economic Account

• Apostles and theologians just thought reasonably: aggregate amount of bread fragments can not exceed initial amount of the bread loaves under the assumption of total bread conservation
• The prophet meant differently: "yeast" of divine truth made an economic growth: the people might just have shared their own stocks of bread and have brought newly baked in a while. Accumulation estimated from the surplus of bread ex post was greater where smaller initial supply would have existed (5/5000 initial supply in loaves per capita produced 12/5000 surplus in baskets per capita, whereas given 7/4000 produced 7/4000)
• We can easily see both types of economists
• Coerced donation as an alternative form of taxation might be seen in religious states

Footnotes

1. Mark 8:18-21