In a message dated 98-10-02 17:04:10 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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>> Our Economic System: Badly Designed?
>> by Roberto Verzola*
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Sorry folks, but i refer back to the original post containing the paper
authored by Mr. Verzola - no i didn't save it but something he stated
continues to bother me.
Verzola spoke of constructing systems which would be stable by virtue of using
system modules which were "isolated" from each other as building blocks.
Apparently he used that term because in a modularized system, the modules
speak to each other only thru data panels which are external to the modules,
i.e. any one module reaches out to take in whatever data it needs and reaches
out to update the panels according to its domain of responsibility.
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
destabilize the system. In fact if the system has been built using historical
data in building up regression fits and such, the system is all but guaranteed
to either destabilize or engender off the wall solutions in a non-BAU
situation, i.e. in a new or rare type of condition.
Certainly something like global economic requirements are far too complex for
a bunch of guys to design while sitting aroubnd the table (or even in a bar).
Jerry
