chartism

Throwing darts is probably actually a better way to make predictions about a stochastic process than naive chartism.

Certainly an element of victorian proto-socialism, chartism maybe too, included a healthy reach back into primitive christianity.

So traders follow all sorts of superstitions like chartism, market proverbs and oracles (talking heads in financial news channels).

Considered logically, Chartism is total bollocks, yet the trading world sees it as generally legitimate.

So, one needs to consider the effects of chartism rather than its outright predictions?

In fact you will have much more measuring and chartism under Scrum.

So let's say these pre-industrial subsistence farmers had instead chosen to identify with the working class Chartism movement of the mid-1800s and joined in a general strike against the landed classes who controlled parliament.

If by "naive chartism" you mean technical analysis, then sure, I agree.

Even conceding "chartism" one would need to at least propose some imaginary mechanism that goes reciprocal to pretend that sort of curve is coming.

My "real work" largely consisted of what is sometimes called "chartism" today.

But if you're attempting to reduce the entirety of academic and industrial economic theory and practice to "naive chartism", then your middle brow dismissal here is both incorrect and breathtakingly arrogant.

Strangely we did very little on Chartism.

A few years back I spent a week powering through Carlyle's main political works ( Chartism, Latter-Day Pamphlets, Shooting Niagara, and the Occasional Discourse ), and it took a couple of days just to get acclimated to his writing style.