Hey Nick, did you mean your question to apply to mostly the USA? Europe? Asia? Africa? South America? Although I keep up a little bit with what's going on in the USA and a bit more about Europe, lately my familiarity is more with Ecuador and to a lesser extent the rest of South America. Down here, we are far from being in a sustainable mode. I can drive one day a week. Supermarkets are open only until 1:00 pm, nationwide curfews from 2:00 pm until 5:30 am. Open questions abound: will farmers plant anything during the lockdown? when will the country allow imports again?
On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 11:34 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > Colleagues, > > > > I have asked this question before and nobody has responded (for clear and > good reasons, no doubt) but I thought I would ask it again. What exactly > is this economy we are bent on reviving? What exactly is the difference in > human activity between our present state and a revived economy. We can go > to bars and concerts and football games? Is that the economy we are > reviving? It seems to me that the difference between a “healty” economy > and our present status consists possibly in nothing more than a lot of > people frantically rushing about doing things they don’t really need to > do? > > > > You recall that I invoked as a model that experiment in which 24 rats were > put in a quarter acre enclosure in Baltimore and fed and watered and > protected to see how the population would develop. They never got above > two hundred. Infant mortality, etc., was appalling. Carnage. In the same > space, a competent lab breeding organization could have kept a population > of tens of thousands. > > > > Don’t yell at me. What fundamental proposition about economics do I not > understand? > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > [email protected] > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... > .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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