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von Neumann on game theory. QED. (the other QED).

I assume you mean quod erat demonstrandum, which normally goes at the end of a proof.

The only thing you've helped prove, as requested, is that there are far better stories about physicists and economics to submit here than a political essay by Albert Einstein. :)

of course, but the guy who posted the essay it did so to show off a critique of captialism. An appropriate response is then to say why Einstein is wrong, not attack his credibility by making it akin to JM Keynes commenting on QED (as Keynes is clearly not qualified to comment on QED).

No.

Einstein is championing a system shown not to work. Why should I spend any more time refuting that in 2010 than I would trying to counter some old essay by an economist on the luminiferous aether?

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