Gary North
Authority and Dominion is my economic commentary on Exodus. It is my longest book.
I have posted this volume of appendixes before I post volumes 1-4. Why? Because in the earlier volumes, I footnote appendixes. If a reader does not have access to the appendixes, he cannot verify the accuracy of the footnotes.
In Appendix A, “The Reconstruction of Egypt’s Chronology,” I break with the traditional textbook chronology of Egypt. I used a combination of reconstructions, most importantly Donovan Courville’s 1971 book, The Exodus Problem and Its Ramifications. I also used the article I persuaded him to write for The Journal of Christian Reconstruction, which I edited. Courville relied on Immanuel Velikovsky’s shortened chronology. Warning: if you don’t know when an event happened, you can’t know how it happened.
Appendix B, “The Demographics of Decline,” is a study of the zero population growth movement.
Appendix C, “The Labyrinth and the Garden,” is a study of certain ancient symbols, including the non-Nazi swastika, which goes back for many centuries.
Appendix D, “The Rule of Law and the Free Market,” discusses the crucial concept of the rule of law, which is derived from Exodus 12:48-49. This principle makes the free market possible. I discuss F. A. Hayek’s writings on this topic.
Appendix E, “The Economic Implications of the Sabbath,” is a study of why it is impossible in the modern world to have everyone cease working on the same day.
Appendix F, “Timing the Lord’s Day,” investigates the hour that the day should begin: sunset, midnight, or sunrise.
Appendix G, “Macaulay on Democracy,” reprints Thomas Macaulay’s letter to an American on why he did not think the Constitution would restrict the rise of the modern welfare state. He wrote it in 1857.
Appendix H, “The Epistemological Problem of Social Cost,” is an essay on how modern economics has not offered a theoretical case for any kind of government economic policy. If economists were intellectually honest, they would not make policy recommendations. I regard this as one of my Big 3 essays, along with appendixes A and C in my commentary on Genesis, Sovereignty and Dominion. I rewrote this essay slightly to become my book, The Coase Theorem (1991). In that year, Coase won the Nobel Prize in economics. Coase died at age 102 in 2013. He never responded to me.
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