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Human society is a product of the human brain. The aspects of society that we term political and economic are likewise products of the human brain. There is no other source for them. There are no political or economic essences or universals, independent of the human brain, existing out there in a positivist, mechanical world waiting to be discovered.
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Cory, G.A. (2004). Political Economy: The Neural Dynamic and Scarcity. In: The Consilient Brain. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0045-2_17
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