Re: FW: Economic Engineers (was: modularizing the economy)

1998-10-08 Thread Durant
Didn't they try a lot of this in 1930's and 1940's Germany? It caused a lot of trouble. do you mean democratic planning? I don't remember any of that happening anywhere. An elite/one person decided for everybody else what to do, people were not convinced by the rationality of the plans

Re: FW: Economic Engineers (was: modularizing the economy)

1998-10-03 Thread Jay Hanson
From: Jay Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If engineers can do it, then no one can. But I don't think we will even get I had a typo, it should say: "If engineers can't do it, then no one can." There is at least one other excellent reason this should be turned over to "engineers": engineers hate

FW: Economic Engineers (was: modularizing the economy)

1998-10-02 Thread pete
"Jay Hanson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Michael Gurstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our Economic System: Badly Designed? by Roberto Verzola* Follow the design rules, and you get a system that is robust and reliable. Violate the design rules, and you get

Re: FW: Economic Engineers (was: modularizing the economy)

1998-10-02 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
pete wrote: [snip] I've suggested here before, that if the world economy was given as a problem for systems engineers to design, they 'd be able to put together something which would work so much better than what we've got, it would be unbelievable. However, there are obviously problems,

Re: FW: Economic Engineers (was: modularizing the economy)

1998-10-02 Thread Geeharp
In a message dated 98-10-02 17:04:10 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Our Economic System: Badly Designed? by Roberto Verzola* Sorry folks, but i refer back to the original post containing the paper authored by Mr. Verzola - no i didn't save it

Re: FW: Economic Engineers (was: modularizing the economy)

1998-10-02 Thread Jay Hanson
In a message dated 98-10-02 17:04:10 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If this is an accurate representation of at least part of what Verzola is saying then it is incorrect. Even in such a system there is no reason at all to believe that the modules interacting with each other via the data cannot