Yup!!
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Spencer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 1:46 PM
Subject: [Futurework] Re: Not a very positive picture
>
> Arthur wrote:
>
>> Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite
>> world is either a madman or an economist. -- Kenneth Boulding
>
> Why is that not obvious to anybody who has taken the basic math
> courses required for an undergrad degree in economics? Everything is
> sigmoid.
>
> At the risk of distracting us from more serious debate, I venture to
> inject a bit of levity on where to begin when writing a paper on
> economics or, for that matter, any academic paper, up to and including
> a PhD thesis, on any subject.
>
>
> From the Data Analysis Devices Application - Toolkit With
> Integrated Tao (DADA-TWIT):
>
> 1. Everything is bell-shaped (Normally distributed)
>
> 2. Everything is sigmoid (Diminishing returns)
>
> 3. Everything is sinusoidal (Goes in cycles)
>
> 5. Everything is stochastic (Completely random and unpredictable)
>
> 6. Everything is fractal (It's turtles all the way down)
>
> 7. Everything is a metaphor (The Pomo option, for the math challenged)
>
>
> None of these putative universals is true, of course, but you
> can write a nice academic paper on almost anything by assuming
> one of them and then demonstrating that the assumption is or is
> not justified. If you can't spin a PhD thesis out of one of
> these, you may need to invoke:
>
>
> 8. Shit happens (The Dada, holistic, artistic option)
>
>
> --
> Imafa Kinasso
>
> Director, Ontic Research Knowledgebase (Lagos, NG)
> Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study
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