Like anything in the mainstream press, tantalisingly short on detail. I argued back in 1996 that Economics needs to take on an evolutionary outlook in a paper that was ultimately published in 2000. Indeed, I used the same Mashallian quote mentioned in the article:
Standish, R.K. (2000) ``The Role of Innovation within Economics'', in Commerce, Complexity and Evolution, Barnett, W. et al (eds) (Cambridge University Press, New York), pp61-79. arXiv:nlin.AO/0007005 The reason why evolutionary economics has not taken off that much is that not enough bright minds are focussed on the problem, and economics is not the same as biology - excessive use of analogy actually clouds understanding. On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 06:40:29PM -0600, Tom Johnson wrote: > Of interest to the list, I hope. > >From the current issue of The Economist: > The Cambrian age of > economics<http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7189617> > Evolutionary economics is surviving, but not thriving > > http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7189617 > > -- tj > > ========================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > www.analyticjournalism.com > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. > To change something, build a new model that makes the > existing model obsolete." > -- Buckminster Fuller > ========================================== > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 8308 3119 (mobile) Mathematics 0425 253119 (") UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
