Hi Ray, At 13:08 05/01/02 -0500, you wrote: >Keith, > >A further aside on this is that the Chinese are using John Warfield much the >same way as Japan used Edward Deming.
M'mm . . . many years ago a good friend of mine (also a Ray, strangely enough) at the Open University tried to get an honorary doctorate for Deming. As a quality control manager in industry at the time I entirely approved, of course, but not being a member of his Senate I couldn't help. There's no doubt that Deming made a significant contribution to Japanese industry. >Both Deming and Warfield are >Americans who were basically ignored by American Corporate management until >they met them on the field of international trade and got their bottoms >spanked. John Warfield is the finest pedagogist and systems thinker I >have ever had the pleasure of reading or meeting. He made me believe >again in the possibilities of science and that was not an easy job >considering all of the fraud around. He even made me reconsider Pierce and >Hayak when the Neo-Cons has almost destroyed any ability for me to separate >their work from the Neo-con abuse of their ideas. Cor! If Warfield could convince you that there's a lot of good stuff in Hayek, then he must be good! But I don't know the fella. Can you give me a reference? Best wishes, Keith __________________________________________________________ �Writers used to write because they had something to say; now they write in order to discover if they have something to say.� John D. Barrow _________________________________________________ Keith Hudson, Bath, England; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________
