Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJager
Just as in economics, macro and micro are two different things. In the case of micro, both you and your neighbor are living under the same government, whereas there is no governing authority and no common laws recognized between two cultures as different as those found in the time we are talking about. Thats a major difference. In the abscense of man-made laws, natural laws come into play.
I am fully aware that macro and micro are different things, however you will find that most macro economic theory is derived at least in part from microeconomic theory. In fact, I have a macroeconomics test in two days, and the page I am open at now has a diagram on it, showing utility curves! Utility curves! One of the most microeconomic tools there is. They look at individual conusmers - yet here they are in a high level macroeconomics book.

So what does this say to me? It says to me that you are just chucking economics in for the sake of it. So do laws function at a macro level? Does a society have an obligation to follow it's own rules at a macro level or not? What are natural laws? Are natural laws simply might is right?